Forcing the Babylon Bee to spoil its jokes is just the setup. Control is the punchline

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The most dangerous thing about artificial intelligence may not be what the machine thinks. It may be who gets to tell it what is true.

That fight burst into the open last week, when the Babylon Bee, a conservative Christian satire publication, sued New Mexico over a law it says requires AI-generated political satire to carry a government-mandated disclaimer. The lawsuit exposes something bigger than whether a joke needs a warning label: Who gets to classify speech before the rest of us get to judge it?

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