A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.
  • SaraTonin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 个月前

    Excellent. Make platforms with algorithmic feeds count as publishers, too, and you can solve 90% of the world’s problems

    • Enfors@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 个月前

      What do you mean by “algorithmic”? Something like a recommendation engine?

      • SaraTonin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 个月前

        Basically anything where the platform prioritises some things over others, rather than just giving you the posts/videos/whatever in order from the people you’ve subscribed to. Recommendation engines would be one example

        • ziproot@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          5 个月前

          To add, what happens is it prioritizes engagement (comments the most, then likes, then dislikes). The problem with that is this ends up prioritizing ragebait, preaching to the choir, disinformation, etc. since that is how you get engagement.

        • Enfors@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 个月前

          Well, technically, that’s not correct. Even showing everything in order is an algorithm, but for some reason people don’t the word to mean that. So thanks for clarifying.