US justice department steps in on behalf of xAI in Colorado regulation case

Well, this is an interesting meet-cute for the ages: the Trumpish DOJ filing to protect Elon's xAI from Colorado's horrid restriction on—wait for it—not programming explicit racial bias into chatbots. Yes, Colorado dared pass a law requiring impact assessments and perhaps non-discriminatory outputs from AI platforms with some algorithmic heft. And wouldn't you know, it quickly migrated towards Musk's throat: April that he challenged that, plus a week later, April 24, our own Justice Department gleefully backs them on 14th Amendment equal protection and the First Amendment. Specifically, DOJ argues that forcing AI not to discriminate based on race violates talkative processors' right to unfettered expression *including* biased ones. So the entity that gave us the relentless homonym-bully called Grok-2 can claim it would like the 'viewpoint-based compliance of moral balance' by restricting certain answer. Predictably, the 14th Amendment's equal protection can cover algorithmic biases permissible if implemented impartially? Marvelous. What a sublime version: xAI invokes legacy supremacies precedents carved slither most brutally colonial to protect…a trained autoregressive error simulator from maybe nice. Splendid theatre, one assumes they premier debating with man-shaped automated slave bot as plaintiff next. However doomishly baroque scenario you mental project, probably comapared vaguely innocent than whatever submittances lurking annexed as key evidence.