AI-generated false claims have become common across the internet, and brands are scrambling to identify and resolve them.
The Regional Court of Munich ruled in a preliminary hearing in May that Google is legally liable for false claims appearing in AI Overviews, its AI-based search platform. The case could impact other artificial intelligence (AI) platforms and developers.
On Friday, Google confirmed to MediaPost that it will appeal the German court's decision.
"We invest heavily in the quality of AI Overviews," a Google spokesperson told MediaPost."This case focuses on specific and narrow errors, not the foundational way AI Overviews displays web content. We disagree with the ruling and plan to appeal."
The court issued the judgement against AI Overviews, its AI-generated summaries. Those AI summaries appear as an alternative to traditional search-engine results.
What makes the ruling difficult to understand is AI Overviews are designed to show information that reflects what appears as written text across the web about a specific topic.
AI Overviews serves up links to websites that include information that backs up what has bee presented in the response, so people can research the topic and verify it for themselves.
The court ruled that Google has direct legal responsibility for defamatory content generated by its AI Overviews because in the preliminary injunction, the Munich court found that AI Overviews produces "independent, new, and substantive statements" that are...
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