They Can’t Stop Talking about AI Speech
Plus obscenity, podcasts, antitrust, defamation, and more…
AI Speech: The Los Angeles Times, CBS News, and ABC News (among several others) quoted Ari’s congressional testimony on AI in election-related speech.
Roll Call quoted him on the same subject: “If you think [deceptive ads are] a problem then it would make sense to address it, whether it’s created by AI or not,” Ari said in an interview. “I’m not sure it makes sense to address it only when an ad is generated by AI.”
First Amendment: At Techdirt, Corbin discussed what Judge Frank Easterbrook can teach us about porn and the First Amendment (hint: the latest spate of anti-porn laws, such as Texas’s H.B. 1181, are censorial nonsense).
Encryption: On the latest Tech Policy Podcast, Corbin talked with Paige Collings of the Electronic Frontier Foundation about how the recently passed UK Online Safety Bill threatens end-to-end encryption.
FTC and Amazon: Next Tuesday, October 17, at Noon ET, Bilal will participate in a webinar by the Information Technology and Innovation & Foundation, assessing the FTC’s complaint against Amazon.
Defamation: Justice Clarence Thomas this week reiterated his call to overturn the landmark case New York Times v. Sullivan. That case requires proof of “actual malice” in defamation suits—a key safeguard for free expression. Corbin took issue with this pet idea of his in The Bulwark a while ago.
USF: Jim’s paper from April, highlighting due process concerns over the FCC’s decision to delegate the administration of the Universal Service Fund (USF) to a private entity, is now available on SSRN.
But what did he think of Ari’s testimony?