• FlashMobOfOne
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    3 hours ago

    They are literally correct. If you really want to use google without the knowledge panels, AI, and ads, it actually exists: udm14.com

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    13 hours ago

    TLDR:

    a German court has ruled that Google is liable for false statements in AI Overviews.

    I’m getting pretty sick of these bots posting links to news articles without anything other than a clickbait title.

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      12 hours ago

      Ugh, yeah, that’s all the place has become; communities full of unsubstantial news articles for what is only substantial news a small amount of the time.

      Lemmy is like 80% really shitty newspaper, 18% hollow rooms, and 2% community.

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        But then you won’t see what the idiots at the Y Combinator-funded Hackernews think is important enough to post! You’ll have to go to every news site individually to read the say-nothing garbage major publications post to hit a quota.

        Why would you want humans filtering out the trash and only posting what they find interesting?? That’s not what social media is for! It should just be a big RSS feed of every billionaire-owned media empire. You fool!

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    12 hours ago

    B> ut the court found that, unlike traditional search engines that merely present lists of links to third-party statements, Google’s tool made “independent, new, and substantive statements” based on its own misinterpretation of links on the Internet.

    That’s a problem, the court said, because while publishers may have been able to sue to stop third parties from publishing defamatory statements appearing in Google search results, only Google can correct the underlying algorithm and outputs displayed in AI Overviews. And because, at least initially, the company did not, it therefore “must be held accountable,” the court ruled. Beyond that, Google’s argument was deemed particularly weak, since the AI overview in this case “contains statements that do not appear in the search results at all.”

    That’s pretty cut and dry, especially for the parties that wew being incorrectly presented in the overview despite letters to Google for cease-and-desist.

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      3 hours ago

      Your quotes carrot is in the wrong place for the first paragraph.