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DiggyDiggyMole@lemmy.world to Fuck AI@lemmy.world · 11 days ago

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

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Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

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A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.

Link to the court ruling from the article (in German): https://the-decoder.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/26_O_869_26_begl_Abschrift_Urteil_v_28_05_2026_Geschwarzt_Geschwarzt_Geschwarzt.pdf

Found the article on HN. The article itself is meh, but I couldn’t find any other site reporting on it.

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    Nice ;). Does that mean, I can sue them when I see a wrong answer?

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      In Germany, yes

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        And according to German law, only if you had actual damages from it.
        And you don’t get a payout that’ll make you rich, you’ll just get awarded a financial amount that covers those damages.
        (After winning in court against Google’s lawyers, of course)

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          The way around the lawyers is to amplify the case loads making it difficult to answer them. Here’s hoping more countries and states do the same.

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          So it’s like how liable laws work in the US… kind of toothless…

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