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Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google (arstechnica.com)
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Potentially impacting all AI search engines and chatbots known to poorly paraphrase source links, a German court has ruled that Google is liable for false statements in AI Overviews.

The ruling came in a case flagged by The Decoder, where two publishers found that Google’s AI Overviews incorrectly linked them to scams and other sketchy business practices. After smearing publishers by making affirmative statements like “Yes, [it] is known for dubious business practices and is often perceived as a scam,” Google failed to correct the misleading output, even after the publishers sent a cease-and-desist letter earlier this year.

Google tried the usual arguments to shield itself from liability for false statements in AI Overviews, such as arguing that most users understand that AI outputs aren’t always accurate and must be verified.

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[–] dr_robotBones@reddthat.com 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Let us all be dinosaurs

[–] mriormro@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

I view them as two different tools entirely.

Did you think encyclopedia britannica was the internet?

[–] dr_robotBones@reddthat.com 2 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Tools are supposed to be useful, all LLMs do is lie and degrade your mental faculties

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Used incorrectly and without caution, yes. It can be made to be very useful if proper guardrails are in place and if the LLM is carefully guided in the task it's performing.

This means, that one should only use an LLM for something they are already quite familiar with doing without an LLM's assistance. Most people will not be doing this however (or in the case of Google's "summaries", unable to as they are not fully in control of the session), and this is where the problem arise.

[–] mriormro@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 hours ago

You’re being purposefully obstinate.

I’m merely stating that a search engine and an LLM are two different technologies that are not really analogous to one another. They do not need to be merged into one as they serve different functions.