Legal systems have always struggled to keep up with rapid technological change, and things are no different in the world of generative AI. There are still relatively few rulings on the new issues that the roll-out of AI-based services is raising. That makes a ground-breaking judgment from a court in Germany particularly important. It concerns the AI Overview that sits at the top of the Google’s search results. The Decoder summarizes the court’s …
An unpublished ruling determined that the technological giant acts as an editor, and not as a mere intermediary, when summarizing information with artificial intelligence. The case arose from a "hallucination" that defamed two companies. Read more