AI Content Moderation Protected by Platform Shield, Judge Says

Elon Musk’s X Corp. succeeded in fending off an account suspension lawsuit on Monday when a California court ruled that the tech industry’s legal shield known as Section 230 protects AI-based content moderation systems.

Judge William H. Orrick said most of a lawsuit from non-fungible token artist Jeremy Ryan, who claims his accounts were unfairly suspended, is blocked by Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act. Orrick, writing for the US District Court for the Northern District of California, rejected Ryan’s arguments that the immunity shield doesn’t apply when X deploys a generative AI models to do content regulation ...