A trillionair, yet his name does not appear on a single school, university, library, museum wing, hospital, stadium, arena, airport, or endowed chairs. What a colossal waste of a human lifetime.
@CLOWN_FlSH Chronic headaches that reduce my vision and trembling hands here, I'm a scientist that never took an art class and started drawing at 43, I will never use AI and I'm proud of where I am, still learning and sometimes struggling
Someone searched for a Munich publishing company on Google. the AI Overview came back with:
"Yes, [company] is known for dubious business practices."
then added a summary. red flags. tips for users to avoid the scam.
confident and structured but was completely made up.
the sources the AI cited said none of that the AI mixed the company up with genuinely shady firms and invented connections that existed nowhere on the internet.
the publishers sent Google a cease-and-desist. Google didn't respond adequately.
so they went to court.
the court's ruling:
AI Overviews are not search results. they are Google's own words. Google rewrote the web "in its own words and according to its own structure." therefore Google is the author. therefore Google is liable.
Google's defense: users know AI makes mistakes and should double-check.
the court's response: that's not how publishing law works.
Google's statement after the ruling: "AI Overviews are designed to reflect information that already exists on the web."
the information that destroyed two companies' reputations did not exist on the web.
the AI wrote it.
Google published it.
a court just decided those are the same thing.
every AI search engine. every chatbot. every platform that takes information and synthesizes it into a confident answer is now looking at this ruling.
When your AI gets it wrong, who pays?
@FT So now he can finance scientific research, donate to schools and hospitals, give money to charities, offer jobs to those in need, protect the environment...
@DiscussingFilm What if he used all that money to do good? Donating to schools and hospitals? Helping scientific research? Building houses for the homeless and giving them a job? Ah, sorry, I forgot nazis don't do any of that.
@Variety The ones sticking their heads in the sand are those pretending not to see that genAI is theft and is destroying an already endangered environment. Disappointed by another celebrity, they all look brainwashed.