Google Is Now Liable for What Its AI Says — And Every AI Company Should Be Sweating
A German court just did what years of AI ethics panels, congressional hearings, and think-piece essays couldn’t: it held Google directly liable for false statements its AI generated. Not indirectly. Not “should have caught it.” Directly responsible — as the author of the content. The Munich Regional Court ruled on May 28 that Google’s AI Overviews aren’t just search results with a fancy wrapper. They’re Google’s own words. And when those words are wrong — defamatory, fabricated, confidently false — Google owns the consequences. ...