ChatGPT is an existential crisis for Microsoft and Google, but not in the way they think
When platforms become publishers, all bets are legally off

By John Loeffler

8 Feb 2023

Microsoft just unveiled its newest AI integration into its broader ecosystem of products, from Bing search to Office and even possibly Windows itself: a ChatGPT-like AI system to interact with users through a large language model that the company says will greatly enhance search results and general user experience using its products.

That may be true in 99.9999% of cases, but it's always the edge cases that get you in trouble, and failures of a system that is effectively a black box are inevitable. That Google and Microsoft are banking so hard on this idea is astounding since they have a unique privilege on the internet that the rest of us don't.

With the integration of these new AI tools, however, Google, Microsoft, and others are pretty much throwing that protection away, and as such, they could, and should, be held legally liable for every bit of misinformation and libel that their new chatbots produce.

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