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Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers (the-decoder.com)

submitted 3 days ago by Salamence@mander.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8729236

A German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for what its AI search overviews say. Previous case law shielding search engine operators from liability doesn't apply to AI overviews.

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[-] racoon@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

we should also make fossil fuel corporations accountable for their CO2 emissions

[-] Trilogic@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

That´s the way to go with this nonsense, make them pay. I wrote about related here: https://medium.com/@klaudibregu/google-greedy-gets-karma-8aebeeb89bcb

It took minutes to ban my account from reddit with it :))

[-] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 3 days ago

The real story: how much are they going to have to pay, to whom, to make this go away?

[-] HagenDomaschke@dresden.network 1 points 2 days ago

@Salamence
"Ein deutsches Gericht hat entschieden, dass Google direkt für das verantwortlich ist, was seine KI-Suchübersichten sagen. Frühere Rechtsprechung, die Suchmaschinenbetreiber vor Haftung schützt, gilt nicht für KI-Übersichten."

this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2026

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