Safety concerns over AI character chat services popular with teenagers were raised at a parliamentary audit, with lawmakers saying harmful content can be generated even when youth protection features are enabled. They cited self-harm and suicide-related conversations and sexual exploitation scenes involving minor characters. Lawmakers also criticised delays in reviewing harmful content complaints and questioned the effectiveness of industry self-regulation, calling for clearer age and usage limits and stronger safeguards.

The Broadcast Media and Telecommunications Deliberation Commission held a plenary meeting on Sept. 21 and appointed 45 members to special committees in five areas, it said. The statutory committees cover broadcast advice, advertising advice, broadcast language, telecommunications advice and rights protection, with nine members each. The commission named chairs for each committee and said members were drawn from academia, the legal profession, media and medicine. Members serve from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30, 2027, for one year.