[waysa]

It makes sense to me.

When Google Search is quoting a 3rd-party website that happens to have bad information, that's not on them. Blame shifts to the 3rd-party. This is Google's privilege being a search engine.

When Google operates as an answer machine instead of a search engine, the privelege doesn't apply anymore. There's no 3rd-party to take the blame.

[tantalor]

No that's not what's happening here.

> According to the court, the Al mixed up information about other, genuinely sketchy companies with the plaintiffs and drew connections that didn't appear in any of the linked sources.

Implying: if the false claim was found in the sources then it would be protected speech.

There is nothing special about "answer machine" versus "search engine". You are making that part up.

[cyanydeez]

You're attacking semantics. the decision is entirely about the reliability and liability./