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Missouri AG: Any AI That Doesn’t Praise Donald Trump Might Be “Consumer Fraud” (No, Really)


Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey just sent threatening letters to Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, claiming their AI chatbots violated Missouri’s consumer protection laws. The crim…

The puzzling responses beg the question of why your chatbot is producing results that appear to disregard objective historical facts in favor of a particular narrative, especially when doing so may take your company out of the “safe harbor” of immunity provided to neutral publishers in federal law? The point of the law was literally the opposite of requiring platforms to be “neutral publishers.” It was deliberately written to make it clear that internet services could and should moderate, which was necessary so that they could create “family friendly” spaces (something Republicans used to support, but apparently no longer do). Filed Under: 1st amendment, ai, andrew bailey, censorship, consumer fraud, donald trump, free speech, llms, moderation, section 230 Companies: google, meta, microsoft, openai

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