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April 24-Section 230 of the United States Communications Standardization Act, issued in 1996, stipulates that companies are not liable for content posted by third parties or users on their platforms (Section 230).

However, the US Supreme Court will decide in the coming months whether to weaken this protection, which could also have an impact on artificial intelligence chatbots such as ChatGPT.

Tuyuan Pexels is understood that judges will rule by the end of June on whether Alphabet's YouTube can be sued for recommending videos to users. Although the platform is exempt from liability for videos uploaded by users, is the protection of Section 230 still applicable when it uses the algorithm to recommend content to users?

The impact of the case extends beyond social media platforms, and the verdict could spark a new debate over whether companies such as OpenAI and Google that develop AI chat robots can be exempt from legal claims such as libel or invasion of privacy, according to technical and legal experts. Experts point out that this is because ChatGPT and others use algorithms similar to the way video is recommended to YouTube users.

Cameron Carey, a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington and an expert on artificial intelligence, said: "at the heart of this debate is whether recommendation engines organize information online and shape content so important that they need to be held accountable." "I have the same concern about chatbots."

Representatives of OpenAI and Google didn't respond to requests for comment.

AI chatbots are trained to generate vast amounts of original content, while Section 230usually applies to third-party content. The court has not yet considered whether the response of the AI chatbot will be protected. A Democratic senator said exemptions could not be applied to generative AI tools because they "create content". "Section 230 is about protecting users and hosting websites and organizing user comments," he said. it should not exempt the company from the consequences of its own actions and products. "

At present, the technology industry has been promoting the retention of Section 230. Some people think that tools like ChatGPT are like search engines that provide existing content to users based on queries. "AI doesn't really create anything. It just presents existing content in different ways or formats." Carl Saab, vice president and general counsel of the technology industry trade group NetChoice.

Saab said that if Section 230 was weakened, it would create an impossible task for AI developers and expose them to a torrent of lawsuits that could stifle innovation.

Some experts speculate that the court may take a neutral position to examine the context in which the AI model generates potentially harmful responses.

In the case where the AI model seems to be able to explain the existing sources, exemption rights may still be applicable. But chatbots like ChatGPT are known to generate fictional answers, and experts say the situation may not be protected.

Hanny Fraid, a technical expert and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, says it is far-fetched to think that AI developers should be exempt from litigation for their "programming, training and deployment" models.

"if companies can be held accountable by civil action, they will produce safer products; if they are exempted, the products tend to be less safe." Fraid said.

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