• Has there ever been a litigation that Google has lost that they didn’t appeal if appeal were available?

    • If you had basically unlimited money, wouldn’t you also appeal everything that you don’t like?

      It’s the same with all the other big companies as well…

  • 4 hours

    I actually want to find out how Google will get out of this one. Without any type of lobbying. Even in the u.s ai search promp resualts are technically considered Googles own speech and they are legally responsible. Sadly no one in government seems interested in enforcing ai and even where there is there is this push to take the power from the states to regulate ai.

  • 9 hours

    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.

  • 10 hours

    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.

    • 9 hours

      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.

  • 11 hours

    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.

    • “Swift” is a meaningless PR term. If they release a slightly less buggy updated Gemini 9 months later they can call it “rapid innovation” or whatever.

      • 2 hours

        But they cannot choose their own arbitrary waiting time when legal actions are already ongoing.