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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)
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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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[–] 11 points 5 months ago

I hope for the one-two punch of:

  1. they're legally responsible for anything the slop machine says
  2. the slop is machine generated, so it isn't copyrightable

Also, we got a third benefit if this ruling too. Google said, on the record, that it shouldn't be responsible because you can't trust anything that the slop-generator generates. Having that on the record could also be useful in a lot of other lawsuits.

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