Court holds Google liable for false claims in AI Overviews. Seems significant.
"A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate 'independent, new, and substantive statements' by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites" the-decoder
Publishers aren't infallible either, but Google serves millions of wrong answers an hour.
"If enough of that wrong content defames companies or individuals, it could become a serious legal problem not just for Google but for other providers of similar services like ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity"
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.
Betteridge's law of headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no
Still a few kinks to sort out before AI takes over the world.
(Source: Reddit)
Interesting look behind the scenes of Apple's AI failures.
"Apple's AI crisis ultimately wasn't only about Siri the product. It was about a company that had spent decades setting the direction of the technology industry suddenly finding itself behind."
The publisher-AI debate mostly circles two things: AI for (re)search, and whether it writes (part of) the text. That misses where it does the most good - the thinking, reading and digging that never shows up in the published text.
Survey: How Danish media plan to use AI
wild that musk has so much idle compute he can lease it to Anthropic AND Google.
"Musk originally built the capacity for his own AI lab, xAI, which has lagged behind competitors."
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Maybe don't make tokenmaxxing a goal in itself?
"Only 26 percent of companies have full visibility into their AI costs, a KPMG survey finds."
https://the-decoder.com/most-companies-are-flying-blind-on-ai-spending/
