
Eugene Volokh on AI Libel
The Lawfare Podcast
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Alan Rosenstein: If someone lies about you, you can usually sue them for defamation. What if that person is Chatter-GPT? Already in Australia, the mayor of a town outside Melbourne has threatened to sue OpenAI because Chattering-GPT falsely named him a guilty party in a bribery scandal. Does our libel law allow that? What does it even mean for a large language model to act with malice? And what's the best way to deal with this problem? Private lawsuits or government regulation? To discuss these questions, I spoke with First Amendment expert Eugene Volok at UCLA and the author of a draft paper entitled Large Libel Models.
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