RegulatoryAlert
The FTC is treating AI-generated dark patterns like any other dark pattern.
If a system nudges a user into a purchase or a commitment through manufactured urgency or asymmetric framing, it doesn't matter that an LLM wrote the copy. It's still Section 5.
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