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by petermcneeley 1884 days ago
I find this difficult to parse. Specific to (a) what are some of the examples where this law would come into play?
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AI system that searches for most addictive setting of various levers in supposedly free-to-play game, in order to raise the amounts of in-game purchases made by end users.
That depends on the definition of

> psychological harm

Are they going to go into a codebase and figure this out? If I use AI to pull these levers vs using a series of if/else statements:

  if person.has_bought_multiple_items

    increase_base_price(person)

that's legal I guess?
The wording looks to me like it's designed to combat the feedback loop of "observe user behaviour" -> "apply ML model" -> "reoptimize addiction loop"