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In this Act: (1) Artificial intelligence The term artificial intelligence has the meaning given such term in section 5002 of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 (15 U.S.C. 9401). (2) Artificial intelligence chatbot The term artificial intelligence chatbot means artificial intelligence that, in an open-ended natural-language or multimodal manner— (A) accepts user input; (B) engages in interactive conversations with a user; and (C) provides outputs that are not— (i) pre-determined or scripted; (ii) limited to contextualized replies or to a narrow, specified purpose, such as— (I) customer service; (II) any operational purpose of a business; (III) productivity and analysis related to source information; (IV) internal research; or (V) technical assistance; or (iii) limited to an educational product or service that primarily provides information, experience, training, or instruction for the purpose of building any knowledge, skill, or craft. (3) Child The term child means an individual who is under the age of 13. (4) Commission The term Commission means the Federal Trade Commission. (5) Covered entity The term covered entity means any public-facing website, online service, or software application that, as its primary function, provides an artificial intelligence chatbot to users. (6) Know The term know means to have actual knowledge or knowledge fairly implied on the basis of objective circumstances. (7) Parent With respect to a child or teen, the term parent includes a legal guardian of the child or teen. (8) Personal data The term personal data has the meaning given the term personal information in section 1302 of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (15 U.S.C. 6501). (9) Targeted advertising The term targeted advertising — (A) means advertising or any other effort to market a product or service to a child or teen user based on any personal data collected from the child or teen; and (B) does not include— (i) advertising or marketing to a child or teen user in response to the most recent prompt input by the child or teen user; (ii) contextual advertising, such as when an advertisement is displayed to a child based on the content of the website, online service, or software application of a covered entity in which the advertisement appears and does not vary based on the personal data of the child or teen user; or (iii) processing personal data solely for the purpose of measuring or reporting advertising or content performance, reach, or frequency, including independent measurement. (10) Teen The term teen means an individual who has attained 13 years of age but has not attained 18 years of age. (11) Transparency label The term transparency label means a notice that— (A) is clearly and conspicuously displayed to a user; (B) disappears only if the user— (i) exits the artificial intelligence chatbot; or (ii) affirmatively dismisses the notice; and (C) discloses that— (i) the artificial intelligence chatbot is artificial intelligence and not a natural person; and (ii) any output of the artificial intelligence chatbot is generated using artificial intelligence. (12) User The term user means, with respect to a covered entity, an individual who registers an account or creates a profile in order to access the artificial intelligence chatbot of the covered entity.