Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Thursday called for the repeal of a law that provides tech platforms legal immunity from content hosted or created on their platforms, citing the danger of artificial intelligence.

Hawley called for the repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act during a speech at the National Conservatism conference. He cited the big tech platform’s scraping of copyrighted works as one instance of big tech abuse.

He remarked, “The AI large language models [LLMs] have already trained on enough copyrighted works to fill the Library of Congress 22 times over. Let me just put a finer point on that — AI’s LLMs have ingested every published work in every language known to man already.”

“As I look out across the room and see many authors, all of your works have alread

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