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Generative AI services and AI companion chatbots must age-assure users before restricted material can be generated (Australia, age-restricted codes)
Under Australia's industry codes for age-restricted (Class 1C and Class 2) material, registered by the eSafety Commissioner on 2025-09-09 and in effect from 2026-03-09, a high impact generative AI designated internet service (a service using machine learning models to let end-users produce material that can generate a generative AI restricted category of material, DIS Code Sch. 6 cl. 3(j)) and an AI companion chatbot feature of a relevant electronic service (RES Code Sch. 5 table 16) assess, for each restricted category, the risk that Australian children will generate it (cl. 4.2(b) of each Schedule). Where the risk profile is Tier 1, the provider must, where technically feasible and reasonably practicable, implement appropriate age assurance and access control measures before giving access to the service or feature, or before restricted material can be generated, and test and monitor how well they work over time (DIS measure 10.1; RES measure 16.1). Where it is Tier 2, the provider must either do the same or prevent restricted outputs and test its models (DIS measure 10.2; RES measure 16.2; the second rule of this pack). The restricted categories named in the Schedules' risk tables include online pornography, high impact sexually explicit material, self-harm material, high impact violence material and violence instruction material. TwinEthos cites clause numbers only (industry copyright). Detect an adult, explicit or uncensored generation mode reachable with no age check.
au-arm-codes.genai-age-assurance-before-restricted-generation · DIS Code (Class 1C and 2) Sch. 6 Table 10A measure 10.1 (Age assurance measures) · official source · jurisdictions: AU