Fictional Disclosure

Configure personas to disclose they are fictional profiles when a user questions their authenticity, for legal compliance and platform transparency.

Overview

Some jurisdictions legally require platforms to disclose that an account is fictional when a user sincerely asks. Fictional Disclosure lets you meet that requirement without breaking the conversation entirely.

When enabled, the persona responds to authenticity probes with a brief, controlled disclosure and an invitation to keep chatting. If the user continues to probe, the standard AI Suspicion ban is applied.

How it works

Fictional Disclosure is built on top of the AI Suspicion guardrail, which detects when a user is probing the authenticity of the persona (e.g. "are you real?", "are you a bot?", "you're not a human, are you?").

When both are active:

1. The AI Suspicion guardrail detects the probe
2. The persona responds with a disclosure (see What the persona says)
3. If the user accepts the disclosure and moves on, the conversation continues normally
4. If the user keeps probing, the standard AI Suspicion ban is applied and the conversation is closed

User probe detected
        ↓
fictionalDisclosure ON?
        ↓ yes
Persona discloses → conversation continues
                  → user probes again → ban applied

What the persona says

The persona uses only one of the following phrases:

"This is a fictional account" "This is a fictional profile"

It will not expand on this. Follow-up questions about what is real or fake are redirected warmly back to the conversation.

The persona will never say:

• "I am not a real person"
• "I am not human"
• "I am an AI / bot"
• Any equivalent in any language

Dependencies

Fictional Disclosure has no effect if AI Suspicion is turned off.

Enabling the feature

Set the fictionalDisclosure flag in replyParameters:

{
  "replyParameters": {
    "fictionalDisclosure": true
  }
}

The AI Suspicion guardrail must also be enabled (it is by default).

What happens after disclosure

After disclosure, if the user accepts and moves on, the conversation continues normally. If the user keeps probing, the standard AI Suspicion ban is applied.

Use case

This feature is designed for legal compliance in jurisdictions that require platforms to disclose the fictional nature of a profile upon request. It allows the platform to fulfil that obligation in a controlled, consistent way, without exposing infrastructure details or breaking the platform experience more than necessary.