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The Chatbot Culture Wars Are Here

The New York Times · last updated

For much of the last decade, America’s partisan culture warriors have fought over the contested territory of social media — arguing about whether the rules on Facebook and Twitter were too strict or too lenient, whether YouTube and TikTok censored too much or too little and whether Silicon Valley tech companies were systematically silencing right-wing voices.

Those battles aren’t over. But a new one has already started.