A German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for what its AI search overviews say. Previous case law shielding search engine operators from liability doesn’t apply to AI overviews.
A German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for what its AI search overviews say. Previous case law shielding search engine operators from liability doesn’t apply to AI overviews.
Noooooooooo it’s supposed to be an entirely unaccountable computer that did it, you can’t sue the people that own it!
-Google’s lawyers, presumably
They don’t just own it, they made it. How can they argue they’re not liable when they develop and control the slop machine’s codebase?
b-b-b-b-but nobody really knows how it works!!
Presumably they’ll argue that it’s user error for users to take it seriously. Can’t sue the knife company if you cut your own toes off by dropping one, after all.
this is more of a “every time I get anything from the fridge someone from the knife company comes into my kitchen and throws a knife at me” situation
I bought a subscription service for a steak knife and it keeps telling me about white genocide