AI Chatbot Is A Product, Outputs Not Protected Speech, Mother Contends

( March 25, 2025, 2:23 PM EDT) -- ORLANDO, Fla. — The First Amendment protects speech and not the predictive text outputs by an artificial intelligence chatbot, but even if those outputs constituted speech, speech protections would not apply to the type of harmful chatbot outputs that led a teenager to commit suicide, a mother told a federal judge in Florida in opposing dismissal while arguing that Google LLC and its related entity can be held liable....