Freedom of Expression in Generative AI: A Snapshot of Content Policies

This paper, published by The Future of Free Speech in February 2024, contributes to the discussion on free speech in generative AI. The paper reviews the policies of six major chatbots – AI21 Labs Chat (AI21 Labs), Gemini (Google), ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), Coral (Cohere), and Pi (Inflection) – and examines the type of content they prohibit. The analysis focuses on generative AI models with web interfaces (“chatbots”) and their policies on disinformation, misinformation, and hate speech, which all the chatbots had.