A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.
Google’s own argument would also “significantly diminish” the benefit of the feature, the court noted, if the overview were “generally recognized as unreliable.”
That’s an important detail, and I’m glad the court caught it up — Google tries to eat the cake and have it too.
The model was tweaked to vomit certainty. Its output is in a page you’re hitting as you’re looking for answers, and this implies the output contains an accurate answer. Everything screams “trust me” = “be gullible” from a distance. Except of course when the model gets something wrong, then it’s your fault for being gullible/trusting.
And this is not just Google, mind you. Every single corporation behind large “language” models does the same shit: “believe me”, then “lol you stupid you believe me lmao haha”.
Reminder: fooling suckers is still fooling people.
It can out-think humans 30% of the time when we create scenarios and hand feed it exactly what it needs to be able to accomplish what we are looking for.
My kid’s elementary school class is being taught to use that overview when they use searches. Reminds me a bit of how cults use thought stopping cliches
That’s disgusting. Almost like school doesn’t care about informing and empowering little human beings for their future, it cares only about shaping them as cogs for the machine… actually, disregard that “almost like”, school is like this.
This will be a source of woes for the following decades.
No, it is really different from when I was in school. Like if you’re not supplementing their education, your kid is missing a lot. And sometimes it seems like the teachers are really struggling to maintain control of the classroom
That’s an important detail, and I’m glad the court caught it up — Google tries to eat the cake and have it too.
The model was tweaked to vomit certainty. Its output is in a page you’re hitting as you’re looking for answers, and this implies the output contains an accurate answer. Everything screams “trust me” = “be gullible” from a distance. Except of course when the model gets something wrong, then it’s your fault for being gullible/trusting.
And this is not just Google, mind you. Every single corporation behind large “language” models does the same shit: “believe me”, then “lol you stupid you believe me lmao haha”.
Reminder: fooling suckers is still fooling people.
“Chill bro, it’s For Entertainment Purposes Only”
but also…
“we’ve created the world’s most powerful disruptive technology ever known and it can out-think humans”
kinda reminds me of the nonsense argument that immigrants are simultaneously extremely lazy but they’re also somehow stealing everyone’s jobs.
We’ve created world most powerful disruptive tech. It can out think humans all the time 30% of time.
It’ll also output SATOR squares that are all wrong, instead of either giving up or providing a real one.
It can out-think humans 30% of the time when we create scenarios and hand feed it exactly what it needs to be able to accomplish what we are looking for.
My kid’s elementary school class is being taught to use that overview when they use searches. Reminds me a bit of how cults use thought stopping cliches
That’s disgusting. Almost like school doesn’t care about informing and empowering little human beings for their future, it cares only about shaping them as cogs for the machine… actually, disregard that “almost like”, school is like this.
This will be a source of woes for the following decades.
No, it is really different from when I was in school. Like if you’re not supplementing their education, your kid is missing a lot. And sometimes it seems like the teachers are really struggling to maintain control of the classroom