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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.

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[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 71 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I mean how the fuck could it be anyone else's it's literally text generation they're generating the text

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 69 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

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

[–] ziggurter@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I mean, nobody should take what it says seriously....

OK. So I can enhance my adblocker to get rid of it from the search results that I take pretty seriously, right?

NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! NOT LIKE THAT! (IP-blocks user from all Google services.)

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