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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Jul-2025 12:31:12 JST Casey Newton

The conservative pressure campaign that turned all the big tech companies into Trump appeasers is now coming for AI. It's totally unconstitutional, and might work anyway. I talked to some legal experts about it: https://www.platformer.news/andrew-bailey-chatgpt-trump-jawboning-legal-case/
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1. Still, Douek reminded me that winning in court is often not the primary goal of letters like these. Bailey’s demands for information may turn up emails or other communications in which employees of certain companies criticize conservatives or otherwise embarrass themselves, and Bailey can use those communications to shame companies and universities publicly and demand policy changes. This is the exact playbook Rep. Jordan has been using for years now, to great success. And so on one hand, tech platforms would be on solid ground if they resisted a plainly unconstitutional request to change the output of their chatbot’s speech. But most of them have made the calculation that it is better to quietly appease Republican elected officials than to loudly oppose them. And that’s how a request that is plainly illegal winds up being effective anyway.
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  The campaign to make it illegal for ChatGPT to criticize Trump
  
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  The conservative pressure campaign against social networks was hugely successful — and now it's coming for AI

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