Laudna: Imogen I would tear my unbeating heart from my chest and wrap it in my very skin and give it to you if I thought you might want it

Imogen: oh that’s sweet :)

The rest of the Hells: …????

Imogen: time to go stare silently into space with tears pricking at my eyes for 19 minutes because I know she means it platonically and it’s awful for me to want anything else 😔💔

Laudna: imogen… you remind me of fields full of flowers in bloom and learning your name is the most precious gift I've ever been given

Imogen: laudna, your mind is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard and all I want is for you to keep being you, next to me

Laudna: I would willingly go into oblivion to keep the memory of your freckles and the smell of your hair perfect forever

Imogen: can I tuck this flower behind your ear?

Laudna: can I brush your knuckle with my finger?

Fandom: Star Wars Andor Rating: General Audiences Words: 1,854 Chapters: 1 of 1 Pairing: Vel Sartha/Cinta Kaz Additional Tags: Mission Fic, Original Characters, Flirting, Almost Kiss

Summary:

Sabé and the Amidalans reach out to Mon Mothma to help them move a prized possession from out of Naboo. Mothma sends her most trusted agents: Vel Sartha and Cinta Kaz.

There's just one problem: this 'prized possession' does not know when to shut up.

For day 13 of my VelCinta pride challenge, and a gift for my good friend @zipzin! Read on AO3.

[fic] you don't want to hurt me (but i want you to)

Fandom: Star Wars Andor Rating: Explicit Words: 974 Chapters: 1 of 1 Pairing: Vel Sartha/Cinta Kaz Additional Tags: Explicit Sex, Fisting (but it's not what you think), Pulmonodes

Summary:

When Cinta came, thighs clutched around Vel’s own, she whispered in Vel’s ear. “I’m alive. I’m alive. I’m alive.”

She was. The whir of her heart said so.

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.