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dot com slash Zero-Trust AI. Here's your TMB Tech Minute for Friday, August 2nd. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

The US government is suing Tik-Toc and Bight Dance for failing to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

The law requires internet companies to provide parental notification

and get parental consent before collecting personal information from children under the age of 13.

The lawsuit alleges that Tik-Tok knowingly allowed children to set up irregular accounts

and create, watch, and share videos with adults.

A Tik-Tok spokesperson said the company disagreed with the allegations and was proud of its efforts

to protect children.

Google has pulled an Olympic-themed ad for its generative artificial intelligence chatbot

after it sparked backlash from viewers.

The video called Dear Sydney featured a father who uses the company's Gemini tool to help his daughter write a letter to Team USA track runner Sydney McLaughlin Lavroni.

Critics online noted that a letter written by AI detracts from the sentimental value it has when personally

written by a child. A Google spokesman said the goal was to show how Gemini can provide a starting

point for writing.

And sticking with Google, the company rehired the co-founders of

Chatbot startup Character AI, along with some members of its research team,

and agreed to license the company's technology.

Noam Shazir and Daniel Defredas both quit Google in 2021 after the search giant rebuffed

their attempts to publicly release a chatbot.

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