The Silence of the LLMs

About this episode

Mike and Ben discuss the latest news in online speech, content moderation, and internet regulation.

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: The Darkest Web (BBC)Federal agencies skirt Trump’s Anthropic ban to test its advanced AI model (Politico)Anthropic Opposes the Extreme AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed (Wired)Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says (Politico EU)Statement by President von der Leyen with Executive Vice-President Virkkunen on the digital...

People in this episode

Hosts: Mike Masnick, Ben Whitelaw

Topics covered

• online speech
• content moderation
• internet regulation
• AI models
• Big Tech regulation

Keywords

• AI
• Anthropic
• content moderation
• Big Tech
• internet regulation
• online speech

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BBC, Politico, Anthropic, Wired, Politico EU, OpenAI, Big Tech

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