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.
  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days 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.

    • mabeledo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      I’ll bite. How do you think a LLM could accomplish what you want to do without using RAG, which necessarily involves a search engine?

      In other words, what you want is a natural language parser than then goes to a search engine and retrieves content from a website to construct an answer that must quote verbatim the site. Which is what they have been doing for years.

      Also, search engines do quote websites, all the time. Are you stuck with Altavista or something?