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Me the second half of the backrooms:

Kandy G. Lopez R ² - Roscoe and Reggie 2024 Yarn and acrylic paint on hook mesh

my daughter cannot, through action or inaction, harm a human or allow a human to come to harm

a daughter at rest or in constant motion remains at rest or in constant motion unless acted upon by another force

daughters are never created or destroyed, only transformed

always treat every daughter as loaded, even if you know she isn't

7. You can fold my daughter through any two points.

10. When two or more daughters are offered for a phenomenon, the simplest daughter is preferable.

11. Any sufficiently advanced daughter is indistinguishable from magic.

12. Without a clear indicator of intent, it is utterly impossible to parody my daughter without someone mistaking it for the genuine article.

Over 500 years spent trying to cut down a whole trunk of human culture.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

For all the reasons above AND ALSO because this particular lawsuit is a defamation case

Privacy lawsuits are hard because most privacy laws are super super weak, and there's very rarely a lot of money or enforcement backing privacy laws for...twenty million reasons, really...

But defamation suits? Those have teeth.

(In large part because, at least in some countries and including in the US, defamation laws protect public figures the least - and "public figures" legally includes most if not all politicians, and a hell of a lot of other rich ppl too)

A German court has ruled that Google can be held directly liable for false claims made by its AI Overviews, a decision that could put a serious legal dent in the whole “the AI made me do it” defense. According to The Next Web, the Regional Court of Munich issued a temporary injunction after Google’s AI Overviews wrongly tied two Munich publishers to scams, subscription traps, and dubious business practices. The court treated those AI-generated summaries as Google’s own statements, not just ordinary search results pointing to third-party pages. That distinction matters. Search engines have traditionally had more protection because they index and link to other people’s content. AI Overviews changes the machinery. Google is not just showing the web anymore. It is summarizing it, rewriting it, and sometimes apparently hallucinating a tiny legal grenade into the results page.

Google made their AI overviews a part of their search engine product specifically so people wouldn't have to actually click the links. They went from "here's a list of places what you're looking for might be" to "this is the information you're looking for."

And when you do that, you're taking responsibility for it. If google wants to play the editorial-summation game, part of that is going to be taking lumps when those editorials are slanderous or otherwise cause harm.

Really, that's the sane way to handle AI-related issues. Policing what can be prompted or generated has strong free speech issues, and while I recognize some limits are pragmatically required, anything that comes out of a generator is functionally a private sketch, doodle, or note until someone decides to publish it. Once published, any responsibility for the nature of the material falls upon the person who published it, and should be treated the same as any other similar piece of analogue material by the law.

Changing general topics for the comparison: If someone uses Midjourney to infringe a Disney copyright, or Suno an RCI one, or whatever, and they don't publish it, that's no different than someone doing that in a sketchbook or a private recording.

If I publish a cover of a song my grandparents danced to at their wedding and put it up for others to listen on youtube without paying the Music Industry vig, I'm the one they'd go after, not Ableton Live for making the software I used to do it, or Fender for making the guitar I used.

As long as there's a potential legal use of the generated novel data, and fair use provides plenty, addressing an issue with art at the art-tool level infringes the rights of the people who would use it that way. I tend to favor the expression right of the individual over the vague claims of financial harm by corporations, especially in these situations.

But the legal efforts are aimed where the money is, not where the fault is. Which is how the media giants like it, because if they have to go after individual people, every instance is a chance for their rent seeking to become a public relations nightmare like in the napster days.

Swinging back to Google, under these principles, google has very clearly taken responsibility for the nature of their AI summations by taking on the role of publisher. If you publish something slanderous or dangerously incorrect without human oversight, that doesn't get you off the hook. Google decided to become, in essence, a news source, and that's cool. It can do that, but it puts itself under the same rules as other news sources when it does so.

Snake: “He was at church when a bomb went off, got pierced by a crucifix, survived by drinking his family’s blood.”

Raiden: “So that’s why he’s called Vamp?”