Speech Without a Speaker: Constitutional Coverage for Generative AI Output?

European Constitutional La Review, First View, pp. 1-37, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1574019625100771

37 Pages Posted: 13 Jun 2025 Last revised: 5 Oct 2025

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Marco Bassini

Tilburg University - Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT)

Date Written: August 06, 2024

Abstract

Generative AI systems’ output as speech – Constitutional coverage for AI speech in the absence of a (human) speaker – Right of individuals to receive information as a perspective for framing constitutional coverage of generative AI output – Implications of constitutional coverage for content policing and content moderation by private platforms – Trends in the interpretation of existing content moderation regimes and their applicability to generative AI systems

Keywords: generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, freedom of expression, content moderation, digital constitutionalism

Suggested Citation

Bassini, Marco, Speech Without a Speaker: Constitutional Coverage for Generative AI Output? (August 06, 2024). European Constitutional La Review, First View, pp. 1-37, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1574019625100771, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5291436

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Tilburg University - Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) ( email )

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