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Two German courts now hold Google liable for what its AI overviews say (the-decoder.com)
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[–] 160 points 3 days ago (6 children)

As it should. If it's a product, then it's Google's faulty product. If they try to pull some shit that AI has agency, personhood or is a legal individual then they should slap google on the account of the applicable slave labor law.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    Governments would love a data center to be suddenly filled with digital persons that haven't paid taxes so far. But if a companion deletes aan AI, is that murder? The whole thing gets silly really fast.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    Governments would love a data center to be suddenly filled with digital persons that haven't paid taxes so far.

    Only if there are incomes to tax. If they're just slaves the government is obligated to step in on behalf of, that's a lot less appealing.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Which government?

    The US still has legal slavery as a punishment for crimes. The companies will just say that the AIs were very naughty and this is their jail, they’re just working off their debt to society through slavery.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    Apply minimum wage at least and overtime pay. Do that retroactively because of course these AI persons were held captive for some years now. That's some serious fines for so many labor regulations. There is income. Technically this is also smuggling and harboring illegal (AI person) immigrants, so justice can have a lot of fun with that one too. Legally things can get really weird by declaring AI had personhood.

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