terrible influence

Like, he does have a lot of “alpha male” qualities, he’s a professional athlete, he’s big, he’s strong, he’s a top player in a sport known for fistfights with a play style that involves provoking other players on purpose. He’s hot and he know it, he’s rich, he spends a lot of his early adulthood clubbing and having casual sex with attractive women. And once he’s found someone he wants to be with long term he has a definite jealous streak.

He also wears shirts that show a lot of skin, and bold patterns, and probably has worn eyeliner. He does gossip with Svetlana.

The real thing that separates Ilya from the concept of the “alpha male” is that unlike those men who feel the need to declare themselves “alphas” Ilya is secure in his masculinity and his sexuality. He has nothing to prove in that respect.

She literally got him twink bussy and a fat line as prezzie to cheer him up after he bombed at the Olympics like.

ilya: it is 2010s hits night so i hope they play lots of ke$ha

shane: i didn’t know kesha had songs other than the tik tok one

starting this by saying im not opening a discussion on this topic. this isn't a fandom discourse blog. there are multiple people online talking about this topic who have well thought out, nuanced takes. there are also a lot of people who are using it to spew hatred and vitriol against a poc. the latter is not welcome anywhere near my blog. im very unlikely to reply to any other anons about this or make any other posts. if I get sent hate I will delete it

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... This is still a preliminary injunction, not a final ruling, and Google can appeal. But for publishers, brands, SEOs, and anyone watching AI search swallow the results page, the message is clear: if Google wants to be the answer engine, courts may start treating it like the publisher of those answers.