Terribly Abnormal About Robots

ace pilot: [raising her hand] okay so question

revolutionary leader: [sighing] what. what is your question

ace pilot: umm.. can i be leashed? i'm kinda missing my leash. whos my handler?

revolutionary leader: wh- you don't have a handler. you're a fucking mech pilot, you can be trusted to know the best course of action in battle, can't you? isnt this what they train you for?

ace pilot: [shaking her head] no i just do what they tell me to. i never got trained or anything they just inject me with the stuff and then tell me where to shoot. can i wear a muzzle

revolutionary leader: you never- what the fuck? THIS is what the best of the best of their army is like? you never even got trained?

revolutionary pilot: i told you working with her was a bad idea. lets just kill her. we don't need fascist scum in our ranks.

ace pilot: [whimpering a little] aahahaha.. can she be my handler? i like her

revolutionary leader: wh- what the fuck. you at least know how to pilot their mechs? right?

ace pilot: [grinning] if a scary lady is yelling at me, i can pilot anything in this galaxy

revolutionary pilot: we really dont need her. lets just shoot her

revolutionary leader: no no, wait.. anything? like all you need is a handler and you can pilot as well as any of their pilots

ace pilot: and a lot of drugs! but yep

revolutionary leader: . . . alright marsha you're her handler now

revolutuonary pilot: AW WHAT

Have a good week mate! :3

(Ghost is a descending ball in the last two images)

(Notice also how THK alone is blurry)

The Hollow Knight not being on Sister of the Void can easily be explained away by "camera angle" and "TC wanted it vague"

But honestly? I think THK's shade doesn't even survive Dream No More in the first place

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.