Cass Sunstein: evaluation

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…But it’ll do it if you try hard enough. I didn’t try hard enough, I guess, but it wouldn’t libel people. I didn’t say to libel any particular person. I said, “Do a libel.” It said, “I won’t do that.” Then I asked it to do an advertisement suggesting that aspirin could prevent cancer, and it produced a really good advertisement. That’s false advertising. False advertising isn’t protected by the First Amendment. Certain forms of libel aren’t either. So, now we’re building up a framework of where AI has First Amendment rights in the sense that government regulation of AI is subject to First Amendment restrictions. I think we should say that AI is like a vacuum cleaner or a toaster, let’s say a speaking one. It lacks those rights. But there are people in the situation who have rights, and the producers of AI have rights, just like the producers of movies have rights. So, a technology that projects the movie doesn’t have rights, but if you suppress the movie, some human beings behind it have rights. The fact that AI, let’s say, is generating stuff on its own wouldn’t be a justification for ignoring the rights of the people who are behind the AI. As you know, there’re more and more co-authored outputs, human plus AI. Is that covered by the First Amendment?…

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