A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.
Neither does an AI generated text.
Yes, that is the problem I alluded to…
Quoting sources verbatim is text search. That’s the whole point.
You don’t need generative AI when there’s nothing to generate.
The AI is not just generative, once again, it is used to interpret the question and surface a specific answer to the question instead of just linking to the entire page.