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But you can't just put all blame on those mobs, when someone gave them this information - or do you think, for example, Donald Trump played no part in the January 6 riots and should not be held accountable for it? I'm missing the comparison here. Trump (in)famously did not post any disclaimers. He did not leave any room for doubt when he accused the Democrats of stealing the election. He spread feces and called it fact, so yes, he should certainly have been held accountable for the consequences. His voters, however, decided not to do so, and that was the end of it. The issue the court took was that Google presented AI-generated information in a shape that was indistinguishable to common users from the previously statistically sourced factoids in Google Search - a product that historically allowed to search the internet for things and get back search results, not AI-provided guesses and hopefully-correct information. Did they, or did they not, include a highly-visible disclaimer that the results might be incorrect? I'm hammering on this, not just because I think it's what should have determined the outcome of the case, but also because the last few times I've seen Google AI summaries, they did not include such a disclaimer. Gemini itself still does, but the instant results on the search page don't appear to. Which is obviously not OK. If they have stopped warning users, or if they didn't warn the users in the situation leading up to the lawsuit, then that more-or-less instantly flips me over to your side. We wouldn't actually have anything to argue about in that case. |