Stealth Bots Prohibition (HR9915)
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2025-12-17 — Stopping Grinch Bots Act of 2025: cross-connection with stopping-grinch-bots-act: Both target automated circumvention of platform controls—Grinch Bots extends ticket-style anti-bot rules to general retail purchase limits, while Stealth Bots addresses undisclosed bot activity more broadly. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-07-23 — A bill to establish consumer transparency and protection requirements for artificial intelligence chatbots, and for other purposes.: cross-connection with ai-chatbot-consumer-transparency: Both address disclosure of automated/AI interactions with consumers; the Stealth Bots Prohibition targets undisclosed bot use while S5117 imposes affirmative transparency duties on chatbot providers. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-07-23 — To prohibit stealth bots, and for other purposes.: HR9915 introduced (referred to House Energy and Commerce, 2026-07-23) to prohibit stealth bots and related undisclosed automated online activity; text framed as bot-disclosure/transparency measure without novel enforcement mechanism. (novelty: 2)