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The LLM Council’s attempt to explain why SuperPACs are doomed
The LLM Council is a a super cool implementation of deliberation among LLMs. The Council will pose a question and pass it among LLMs and then resolve it finally on the basis of the arguments that each LLM presents. Continuing in my effort to see how AIs might understand the argument for why SuperPACs are not compelled by the First Amendment, I gave the council Citizens United and SpeechNow and asked it to analyze whether SpeechNow followed from Citizens United. Here is its answer.
Logical Analysis: Citizens United vs. SpeechNow
Direct Answer
SpeechNow does NOT follow logically from Citizens United without making an additional, unstated assumption. While Citizens United established that independent expenditures cannot produce quid pro quo corruption, it did not address — and therefore did not eliminate — the government’s anti-corruption interest in regulating contributions to committees making those expenditures. The D.C. Circuit…
