This is a great way to handle it. Just let liability fall on on those responsible for the hazard. Your shitty AI just told some idiot to drink bleach? Your AI company is liable for the damages. Simple, effective.

Unusual German win. Now make it EU law.

As it should be

Correct and common sense ruling. The tech broligarchs can't buy the judiciary in other countries like they do here in the US.

Nice. Now, Google will probably just disable AI overview in germany cause they know they can't make it not spew made up crap. The hope's on more countries following suit on this.

As it should. Google is factually responsible for the resulting slop and should be legally responsible for it.

Wow that makes so much sense it’s crazy.

Here's hoping it becomes a case cited in the whole EU.

Seems fair to me. A search engine's whole purpose is to surface real information, not made up stuff.

Its very different than a chat bot, which also needs better rules around it, but I'd definitely hold search to a higher standard.

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

Tja.

Makes sense that if you use AI, it implies that what you put out using it, you've signed off on it.

:)

This makes perfect sense. If you use AI to write a court document it has been set as precedence in multiple countries that the attorney signing the document is responsible for the content even if AI makes stuff up (which it does a lot).

Well, I’m afraid that, unfortunately, this ruling will ultimately never be enforced, as it would make it impossible for the powerful multibillion-dollar corporations to operate this business.

Another example of just how influential these corporations are is the fact that the most profitable piracy operation in history is even possible. Gigantic corporations of major influence have already filed multiple lawsuits over blatant intellectual property theft—yet even these players clearly stood no chance against the concentrated capital that is preventing the AI bubble from bursting immediately.

Therefore: It is the right decision, but it will almost certainly remain without consequence.

"because it alone has influence over the AI's offering and the algorithms with which the AI operates."

Okay so anything someone generates with the AI is owned by the company?

Can we add companies and law enforcement agencies that use facial recognition or LPDR that lead to the arrest and long term incarceration of people who are literally in a different state at the time of the crime? I heard of 3 so far who have lost homes, jobs, child custody, etc. These companies should literally pay restitution and to assist the individuals rebuild their lives.

Great, liability is the only way to get them to care. I wonder how long it will take Google to threaten with pulling out of the EU.

The court treated the AI overviews as Google's own content and rejected Google's argument that users were responsible for fact-checking the results themselves.

Ah yes we'll force feed you info as the first thing but you're responsible for checking it. What a plan.

I absolutely love seeing these types of rulings. Y'all want the stochastic AI to run all these things be prepared to be legally on the hook for the shit it does and says.

this is an LLM killer for germany, this will force compnays to not rely on these buggy POS until it at least operates reliably. or risk lawsuit as people fish for reasons to sue using the chat bot.

Easy fix. Google just needs to prompt their AI with "make no mistakes".

If stupid corporations want to have the same rights as humans then they should be bound by the same laws.

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

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 :))

Good. The argument that they can’t control what is said is just asinine. They have the ultimate option, turn it the fuck off.