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Deploys a chatbot

deploys_chatbot

Your app runs a conversational interface that answers users in natural language, whether scripted or built on a language model.

  • scope code
  • in the registry since 1.0
  • 1,044 laws in 224 jurisdictions name it

What triggers it

The lint's definition. It offers a conversational AI interface that people talk to, in the product or acting for it, whether the model is yours or a vendor's.

This covers a customer-support chat window, a voice assistant embedded in an app, and a text-based intake tool that asks a user questions and stores the replies.

What does not

A static FAQ page with no back-and-forth exchange does not count.

Often confused with Generates content with AI and Records text chat.

The law it brings into scope

The kinds of law that name this activity in the LexLint law library, with the number of laws and jurisdictions in each, as of . The examples are chosen by rule, laws in force first and the widest jurisdiction first; each section's page lists every law.

Area of lawLawsJurisdictions
Privacy law

Have a legal basis for personal data, honor people's rights over it, and report a breach.

 807 218
AI law

Tell people when they are dealing with an AI system or its output, and control the uses the law calls high-risk.

 101 65
Cybersecurity law

Build software securely, handle reported flaws, and report incidents on a deadline.

 91 67
Communications law

Get consent before marketing, calling, recording or storing data on a device, and honor an opt-out.

 28 24
Product and AI liability law

Answer in damages when defective software or an AI system causes harm.

 25 23
Scraping law

Stay within computer-access law, a site's terms, and the copyright in what is copied.

 1 1

Counterparties that usually come with it

  • a model provider that writes the answers
  • a chat-widget vendor

A component that cannot run as documented without one of these names it in its ACTIVITIES.md under talks_to, with required: true. That party's jurisdiction then joins the run of every product that uses the component, and the finding says why it is there. A default the deployer can change is asked about, never added. Talking to a party never makes a product that party.

In a declaration

A library or framework that makes this possible enables it; an application whose shipped code does it performs it.

For a library

activities: - id: deploys_chatbot mentioned: enables enabled: requires_configuration where: [<the module that carries it>] note: <one sentence>

For an application

activities: - id: deploys_chatbot mentioned: performs enabled: by_default where: [<the module that carries it>] note: <one sentence: what it does, and the kind of law it attracts>

History

In the registry since version 1.0, .

In the glossary: Deploys a chatbot.

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