Big-Ass Wings

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.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

The more I think about my childhood, the more I feel like if had this really weird degendered sort of childhood? Maybe it's because im autistic, but when I look back I just have a lot of very strange experiences. I identify as nonbinary, but im not sure if thats because I feel like I've never been allowed to have a gender or I just dont understand gender right. Despite being afab and people knowing this, I feel there are experiences that are rather uniquely transfem that I somehow have a connection to. Things I did that were perceived as feminine were punished by my peers, and I was abused for being distinctly different. Maybe its autism, but again, I would wear dresses and then was punished and ostracised. I was never included as either a girl or a boy. Like some... third thing. I don't understand what was going on with it, and perhaps this is something distinctly transmasculine that im misinterpreting, but I always felt this way. My body was always something that was commented on and pointed out as being non feminine. It doesn't help that I have a gender neutral name often used for boys, and was mocked for having this name. I don't know. People didn't even want to touch me at risk of catching whatever was wrong with me. Instead of cheese touch, my class had (name) disease. Maybe im reading too much into it. Its hard to remember.

that's the thing! the gatekeeping of and punishment for femininity is not wholly unique to us. the double bind of womanhood is that femininity is held up as the ideal, but it is also denigrated and devalued, especially in those of us who are the "wrong" performers of it

in Whipping Girl, Julia Serano writes a lot about how femininity is seen as artificial and constructed, and how trans women are hit by this 10x more because our expressions of femininity are seen as especially artificial and performative

I can see how being autistic would work similarly. if you are not following the social grain as naturally and smoothly as others, then others may treat any performance of femininity on your part as a facade built to fit in with them. doubly so if they think your body does not fit their ideals of femininity

femininity is heavily gatekept for those of us who aren't considered the "right" performers of it, so it doesn't surprise me at all that this kind of experience is not exclusive to transfems. in many ways our failures to perform masculinity and our inclinations toward femininity get us treated as girls, just not the kinds of girls who get rewarded for femininity (this gets me thinking about how my transfemininity and autism intersected in how I was abused as a child...! hm!)

I don't know what country you live in, so I don't know how true this is everywhere, but where I'm standing, it's really only cis, white, skinny, neurotypical, able-bodied women who are really treated as the "right," "natural" performers of femininity, because they're who the white supremacist patriarchy wants to hold up as the prime examples of it. they're the ones who they want to use to make more white, "normal" babies. everyone else is, to varying degrees, gatekept from this position and treated as disposable, undesirable, ok to abuse freely--especially if they aren't seen by the patriarchy as someone who can be converted into their ideal type of woman

so no, I don't think this kind of experience is uniquely transfem at all. though transmisogynists like to obscure this fact, they are largely pulling out the same tricks used against many other types of marginalized women and/or those read as women, all for the purpose of gatekeeping what "ideal" womanhood looks like so that it can continue to benefit them