A particularly weird wrinkle in a landmark case.
There are still limits here. Language models can “hallucinate” incorrect facts like Google’s and Bing’s errors above, and if these enginesan error, they’re on shaky legal ground under any version of Section 230. How shaky? Until it comes up in court, we won’t know.could make AI search risky even if engines are simply giving an accurate summary of somebody else’s statement.
“This case involves a fairly specific type of algorithm, but it’s also the first time in 27 years that the Supreme Court has interpreted Section 230,” says Kosseff. “There’s a danger that whatever the court does is going to have to endure for [another] 27 years. And I think there’s a real danger in making a rule that’s very specific to 2023 technology — when in five or ten years, it’s going to look completely antiquated.
Precedents around people lightly editing posts by hand will only offer a limited guidepost for complicated, large-scale AI-generated writing. Courts could end up having to decide how much summarizing ismuch for Section 230, and their decision could be colored by the political and cultural climate, not just the letter of the law.
And the line between AI summaries and conventional search isn’t always clear-cut. The regular Google search results page already has suggested answer boxes that editorialize around its search results. These have delivered potentially dangerous misinformation in the past: in one search snippet,a series of “don’ts” for dealing with a seizure into a list of recommendations. So far, this hasn’t produced a deluge of lawsuits.
But as courts reconsider the fundamentals of internet law, they’re doing it at the dawn of a new technology that could transform the internet — but might take on a lot of legal risk along the way.
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