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OpenAI, the company behind the AI model ChatGPT, is being sued for defamation due to false information generated by its system in what could become a landmark case. The chatbot falsely accused a radio host of embezzlement and defrauding a charity.    

The Supreme Court crackdown on social media platforms’ liability shield for user content that many observers expected in ...

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are in the firing line

The Supreme Court refused to take up a lawsuit on May 30 against Reddit over its alleged hosting ...

Harmful to kids and to adult users. frances, thank you for joining us. you just heard what the surgeon general just said there. hes likening this to regulation on medications, regulation on cars that are designed to protect users. so, what accountability and liability even do these social media companies have for the actual harm that they might be causing to children and families? >> today social media companies operate under something called section 230, which gives them basically blanket immun...

Two high-profile cases that came before the U.S. Supreme Court truly had the legal teams at Big Tech ...

The Supreme Court declined to rule on Section 230 in a win for Silicon Valleys giants.

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Twitter in a case experts said could have fundamentally changed how the internet works.

Case, a decision on the google case yamiche just mentioned. fill us in, what was the latest there, was it the same as twitter? >> essentially, yes. this is a big win for the tech companies that were worried that this shield law known as section 230, which for years has allowed the tech companies to avoid liability for what users post on social media, they essentially dodged that whole issue and decided that these plaintiffs couldnt actually make a claim under an entirely different law, an antite...

Lawsuits against social media alleging that theyre responsible for contributing to tearist attacks, almost universally those lawsuits have failed. >> reporter: analysts say the first amendment protection of free speech often derails lawsuits against social media companies, as well as section 230, which classifies internet platforms as intermediaries. >> a principal that says the people who initiated it are responsible for it but not the intermediaries in the middle that make it available to the ...