U. S. Senator Marsha Blackburn has released a 291-page legislative framework that would repeal Section 230, expand liability across the artificial intelligence ecosystem, and establish a unified federal rulebook governing how AI systems are built, deployed, and controlled in the United States.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is one of the shortest and simplest pieces of tech-policy legislation that you'll read, but even some of the stoutest advocates of "CDA 230" are showing signs of disagreement over how to apply it to generative AI outputs.

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