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Also, is it legal in California?

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

I'm not a lawyer, but it sounds like they're probably okay as long as the bot doesn't advertise anything or incite people to vote.

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I missed the part of the article which mentions getting matched against deepMind is opt-in in the first go through. So everything should be fine.

It’s opt-in, and also it doesn’t even come close to matching the descriptions in the bill.

> for the purpose of knowingly deceiving the person about the content of the communication in order to incentivize a purchase or sale of goods or services in a commercial transaction or to influence a vote in an election.

Maybe that is why it is only being done on the European ladder. Deepmind is a European company owned by Alphabet.

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