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A German regional court has found Google directly liable for false claims in the search engine's AI reviews. The case involved the AI reviews wrongly linking two Munich-based publishers to fraud and suspicious business practices.
The court ruled that the AI overviews – which provide direct answers to questions – are Google’s own content, unlike the classic search results which simply show a list of websites related to the search phrase. Therefore, Google is liable for what the AI overviews claim.
According to the court, the allegations of shady behavior were not even included in the search results. The reasoning was that Google created the artificial intelligence and Google offered it to users, and only Google has control over what the algorithm and model claim.
Google reportedly argued that users can visit the source citations and verify for themselves whether what the AI review claims is true, and that users understand that they should not blindly trust information generated by AI – something the court did not buy. In an analysis commissioned by the New York Times, the AI reviews were correct 91 percent of the time.
Source: https://the-decoder.com/landmark-ge...-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/
The court ruled that the AI overviews – which provide direct answers to questions – are Google’s own content, unlike the classic search results which simply show a list of websites related to the search phrase. Therefore, Google is liable for what the AI overviews claim.
According to the court, the allegations of shady behavior were not even included in the search results. The reasoning was that Google created the artificial intelligence and Google offered it to users, and only Google has control over what the algorithm and model claim.
Google reportedly argued that users can visit the source citations and verify for themselves whether what the AI review claims is true, and that users understand that they should not blindly trust information generated by AI – something the court did not buy. In an analysis commissioned by the New York Times, the AI reviews were correct 91 percent of the time.
Source: https://the-decoder.com/landmark-ge...-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/
