AI Chatbots Have a Donald Trump Problem

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Publish Date:

July 23, 2024

Author(s):

Herrman, John

Source:

New York Magazine

Related Person(s):

Related Organization(s):

Center for Law and the Biosciences (CLB),
CodeX,
John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics,
Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology,
Transatlantic Technology Law Forum

Summary

“I don’t think you get Section 230 immunity on the fly if you generate a statement that seems to be defamatory,” says Mark Lemley, director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology. Sam Altman has acknowledged the concern. “Certainly, companies like ours bear a lot of responsibility for the tools that we put out in the world,” he said in a congressional hearing last year calling for new legal frameworks for AI. “But tool users do as well.”