Source: Liberalism.org
by Corbin Barthold
“‘Defendants fail to articulate why words strung together by an LLM are speech.’ With that curious line, one of the first judges to confront the question suggested, in the teeth of law and logic, that AI outputs might not be protected by the First Amendment. Consider what that would mean. If the outputs of large language models were not treated as protected expression, the government would have sweeping power to dictate what they can and cannot say — even what they must say. Already, sixty percent of Americans, and nearly three-quarters of those under thirty, use AI to find information. Those numbers will only grow. AI is fast becoming a medium through which hundreds of millions of people form opinions and make sense of the world. A government with control over AI outputs could twist that pursuit of truth — rewriting the past, shading the present, and warping the future.” (04/28/26)