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Two German courts now hold Google liable for what its AI overviews say

Photo: The Decoder

What happened

Google tried to overturn a landmark Munich ruling on AI search liability by appealing, then quietly settled. The strategy isn't working. The Aachen Regional Court just applied the exact same reasoning in a new case where Google's AI falsely attributed criminal offenses to a doctor that actually involved someone else. A consistent legal view is forming across German courts, and it treats Google's AI answers as the co…

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Why it's spreading

Timeline

  1. First appeared on The DecoderThe Decoder
  2. Discussion started on Lemmy TechnologyLemmy Technology

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