BotNotice vs pasting an AI notice yourself
Most businesses can add a line to their chat that says it's AI. Many do, and it's better than nothing. Here is what doing it yourself covers, what it doesn't, and how a pasted notice quietly stops working.
What doing it yourself gets right
- It costs nothing but a few minutes.
- You control the exact wording.
- If your chat tool lets you edit the greeting, the notice can sit in the first message itself.
Side by side
| A notice you paste yourself | BotNotice | |
|---|---|---|
| Notice when the chat opens | A line you or your web designer adds | Shown beside the chat when it opens, on every page, on every plan |
| Knowing it still loads | You find out when someone complains | Checked from outside every day, with an email the morning it fails to load (plans with records) |
| Proof for a given date | Screenshots, if someone took them | A dated entry each time the notice shows, kept 7 years (plans with records) |
| Who keeps the record | You, so it's your word | BotNotice, linked entry to entry and copied off-site every night |
| When the rules change | You read the statutes | A law tracker covering 17 U.S. states plus the EU and UK; Managed Compliance updates your notice for you |
| Visitor privacy | Whatever your chat logs keep | No chat transcripts, visitor names or IP addresses |
| Cost | Free, until it goes wrong | From $12.99 a month per website |
How a pasted notice stops working without anyone noticing
- The site gets a new theme or a redesign, and the line that held the notice doesn't come across.
- The chat tool updates its widget. The notice still exists, but no longer sits where the chat opens.
- Someone edits the chat greeting to sound friendlier and drops the AI line.
- A speed or script-blocking plugin stops the notice from loading on some pages.
- Nothing looks broken, so nobody checks. The first sign is a complaint, and by then there's no record of what visitors saw.
Which one fits
If you only need a notice and you'll check it yourself after every site change, pasting it yourself is fine.
If you'd rather hear about it the morning the notice fails to load, and be able to show it was there on a given date, that's what Disclosure + Records does for $29.99 a month per website.
Common questions
Can I just add an AI notice to my chatbot myself?
Yes, and it's better than nothing. The risks are that it can stop loading when your site or chat tool changes without anyone noticing, and that if someone complains you have no record showing it was there.
Why would a notice I pasted stop working?
Redesigns, theme changes, chat tool updates, edited greetings and plugins that block scripts can all remove or hide it. None of them make the site look broken, so it usually goes unnoticed until a complaint.
What does BotNotice add over a pasted notice?
On every plan, the notice is shown beside the chat when it opens. On plans with records, BotNotice also checks every day that it loads, emails you if it doesn't, and keeps a dated entry each time it shows, kept 7 years.
Other comparisons: BotNotice vs Claire, BotNotice vs AIDisclose.
Not legal advice. BotNotice provides disclosure tools, records and support.