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.
        • mabeledo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Quoting sources verbatim is text search. That’s the whole point.

          You don’t need generative AI when there’s nothing to generate.

          • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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            2 days ago

            The AI is not just generative, once again, it is used to interpret the question and surface a specific answer to the question instead of just linking to the entire page.

            • mabeledo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              1 day ago

              Again, if the result is a quote verbatim, it’s just text search.

              There is no difference between traditional search results, where a highlighted quote of the searched topic is presented, and what you propose.

              • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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                1 day ago

                You can keep repeating the same nonsense over and over and it doesn’t make it any more correct. I’ve repeatedly explained how it’s not the same.

                • mabeledo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  1 day ago

                  First of all, you don’t have any notion of how LLMs work, so you cannot “explain” anything.

                  But even if you did, the idea that a LLM should just interpret a query written in natural language, and return the results for that query quoted verbatim from the source, is so close to how traditional search has been implemented for the past decade or so, it’s hilarious that anyone would propose an alternative to it that is ten times more expensive and not nearly half as precise.

                  Regardless of all this, “what if we had LLMs that quote text verbatim” is not an explanation, it’s wishful thinking. It’s like saying that if we had flying cars, traffic jams would go away, then proceed to ignore the fact that cars don’t fly, and even if they did, they would be way more expensive, and even if they weren’t, they would create other issues like the need for air traffic control. Silly ideas are a dime a dozen.

                  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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                    24 hours ago

                    the results for that query quoted verbatim from the source, is so close to how traditional search has been implemented for the past decade or so

                    That’s never how it’s worked. Traditional search engines just point to links.