The Supreme Court is due to rule by the end of June on whether Alphabet Inc’s YouTube can be sued over its video recommendations to users. The ruling could influence the debate over whether companies that develop generative AI chatbots should be protected from legal claims such as defamation or privacy violations. During arguments in February, justices expressed uncertainty over whether to weaken the protections enshrined in the law, known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. The case is only one facet of an emerging conversation about whether Section 230 immunity should apply to AI models trained on troves of existing online data but capable of producing original works.
