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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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Time for a grievance lawsuit, I've wasted so many hours on bad fixes in modded Skyrim.
On a more serious note. The Google AI is effing dangerous; it's wrong half the time and some of the "advice" can have lasting consequences.
Oh good! I was concerned, but apparently it's normal.
Absolutly hilarious. Is it real?
Usually the search/prompt is pretty long/specific nowadays to get these results.
No way to tell, especially now since generative AI has killed the semblance of objective reality.
Half the calls I get are "well the website said this"
oh, did our website say that? Or did the search page say that? Because I have a pretty damn good idea of what our website does and doesn't say
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