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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Apparently, this isn't because of "AI" or privacy regulations but because German courts decided that third party liability shields don't apply to "AI" summaries published by Google itself

This should not come as a surprise, I and others warned about this

I wrote this (see image) in The Intelligence Illusion back in 2023 (https://illusion.baldurbjarnason.com/)

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

https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/

Screenshot from a PDF of the Intelligence Illusion containing the following text: "Section 230, and similar laws in other countries, let hosting companies host without being liable for what their customers upload. Without those laws, social media networks and search engines would not exist. In most countries these laws have some limits, but overall what they mean is that you aren’t legally liable for the comments that somebody posts on your service." "One problem with integrating generative models into your product, especially a hosted product, is that many of the uses of AI are likely to fall outside these protections. If somebody gets your online AI chat widget to talk like a genocidal Nazi, you might be as liable for that as if you had published pro-genocide Nazi propaganda yourself. That would mean that exposing these tools to your customers risks exposing you to enormous legal liability."