It seems obvious to me that there’s a huge gap between a search result, which is a link and an excerpt where the operator of the linked site is clearly responsible for the content, and an AI overview, which mixes information from multiple sources with generated nonsense.
Google should absolutely be liable if it generates overviews containing defamatory lies.
Or they link to the real sources that might be incorrect to shift the blame, but then those sources can charge for using their data what’s even worse in the AI scraping era.
It is not user submitted. These shitresults are made by Google, by their servers. They chose to put it there, knowing it may be inaccurate. So they are fully responsible.
This. 100x.
We had answer snippets long before they shit this abomination into existence. I hope they lose horribly and Germany goes for the hat trick and drops a: “oh! while you’re doing that you’ll need to remove those false results that are ads… or need to CLEARLY label them.”
I can dream.
Google said it takes swift actions against violations of its policies for AI Overviews.
LOL Hasn’t it just been proven right here in this case that the opposite is true?
If I have read the verdict properly, even after being officially noticed and legally requested to stop the offending statements, the company did not react at all and the AI repeated it’s crap.
