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Wow, reading @jeffjarvis 's blog post and it gets even worse: Synthetic text ("generative AI output") is text that represents no one's communicative intent. But it is well-formed and so people who encounter it interpret it. >>

Screencap: "Section 230: Members of the committee also want to pass legislation to exclude generative AI from the protections of Section 230, which enables public discourse online by protecting platforms from liability for what users say there while also allowing companies to moderate what is said. The chair said no witness in this series of hearings on AI has disagreed. I had the opportunity to say that he has found his first disagreement. I always worry about attempts to slice away Section 230’s protections like a deli balogna. But more to the point, I tried to explain that there is nuance in deciding where liability should lie. In the beginning of print, printers were held liable — burned, beheaded, and behanded — for what came off their presses; then booksellers were responsible for what they sold; until ultimately authors were held responsible — which, some say, was the birth of the idea of authorship." Source: https://medium.com/whither-news/in-the-echo-chamber-43030dac5651