A Canadian fiddle player is suing Google for $1.5million, alleging that its AI Overview wrongly said he was a sex offender.
Ashley MacIsaac, an award-winning musician, filed the claim at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and argued that the online giant is liable for its AI-generated Overview feature, which wrongly listed that he had been convicted of several offences.
These offences it listed included the sexual assault of a woman, luring a child online with the intention of sexual assault, and assault causing bodily harm. It also wrongly claimed that the musician had been listed on the national sex offender registry, according to the lawsuit (via The Hollywood Reporter).
This, he outlines in the filing, was something he discovered when Sipekne’katik First Nation informed him that a show he was set to play on December 19 2025 had been cancelled due to complaints made by the public, citing the false information on Google’s AI Overview.
He is now suing Google for $500,000 (368,867) in general damages, $500,000 (368,867) in aggravated damages, and $500,000 (368,867) in punitive damages.
Sipekne’katik First Nation has issued an apology to MacIsaac for cancelling the December concert and admitted that the move was “based on incorrect information generated through an AI-assisted search, which mistakenly associated you with offences unrelated to you”.
They added that they “deeply regret the harm this caused to your reputation and livelihood” (via The Guardian).
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