Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8729236
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.
https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/Open linkView original on mander.xyz
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The real story: how much are they going to have to pay, to whom, to make this go away?
@Salamence
"Ein deutsches Gericht hat entschieden, dass Google direkt für das verantwortlich ist, was seine KI-Suchübersichten sagen. Frühere Rechtsprechung, die Suchmaschinenbetreiber vor Haftung schützt, gilt nicht für KI-Übersichten."
That´s the way to go with this nonsense, make them pay. I wrote about related here: https://medium.com/@klaudibregu/google-greedy-gets-karma-8aebeeb89bcb
It took minutes to ban my account from reddit with it :))