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by verdverm 1 day ago
This is a bit of a different situation. Professionals (individuals), especially those with certifications, can go to Ai to help them in their job, but they are ultimately responsible for their communications on an individual level. We have laws and processes to deal with this already, which are also being used already.

When consumers go to search, there is an existing understanding, and they are being given ai output directly from a machine without asking. My hunch is that search will be ended as a consumer facing product, instead putting users directly into an Ai interface, where Google can argue it is no longer search and the same rules no longer apply, because it is a new tool with different ToS and intent.

Search will move (is moving) to a pay-for-results, contractual relationship, mainly to power agents. This is how I do search now.

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AI lulls people into accepting flawed results in order to save time. Otherwise, AI is a lot less useful.

If a doctor relies on an AI assisted diagnosis that is bad, he can be held accountable. But so can the vendor of the flawed AI tool.

There is plenty of liability to go around here.

https://www.medboundtimes.com/medbound-blog/when-ai-gets-it-...