Gemini is so consistantly wrong when i do google searches that i just ignore it now.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2026
342 points (98.9% liked)
Technology
85583 readers
3946 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
In google's defense you shouldn't be using AI as definitive answers any more than any website that uses contributed or summary content. Decisions like this just create legal theater click boxes that you'll have to click with disclaimers acknowledging you are using them at your own risk.
They could make an effort to verify the content they're sending out to people.
A big reason why traditional media is dying is that they have to verify the things they publish or they'll get sued. Social media can use algorithms to build narratives based on lies without any liability. And people will believe those lies (because they're tailored towards their personal feelings) and start distrusting anything that's telling the truth.
And yes they will annoy you with checkboxes and dialogs like the cookie dialogs on most sites now. But the reason why you get those is because they don't want you to have privacy and so do the malicious compliance things and annoy the shit out of you instead. They know you'll blame the government instead of being angry at them for wanting to violate your privacy.
Same situation here... they could put resources into verifying the things they tell you is true. But lying is more profitable, so they'll put on a bunch of annoying dialogs so you'll be angry at the government instead of being angry at them for wanting to lie to you.
Whoa. Companies are responsible for what is on their site???? How can this be??
Google hasn't been investing enough in German politicians.
Fair, they're the provider of the informations
Google can challenge the court’s ruling. As of writing, Google hasn’t decided whether it will appeal the verdict.
This article is out of date because Google has decided to appeal in the meantime.
This verdict is not legally effective yet. And it may never be. On the high seas and in a German courtroom, the people say, you're in God's hand. The next higher court can send this back to the lower court or could overrule it all together. And if they don't do any of that, Google can go to the next higher court. Every appeal will add anywhere from 6 months to 2 years to the timeline. By the time this gets a final ruling Skynet may have killed us all.
A Canadian singer/songwriter could surely do something with an article talking shit about so-called AI having a so-called AI bullet point summary at the top. Don't you think?
But how high does the court hierarchy go?
City court, county court, state (Bundesland) court, national (supreme?) court? ECHR seems like it's off the table.
AFAIK in every place parties to a suit can escalate appeals through all levels. Google (ab)using this power isn't all that nice for plaintiffs, but it is a cornerstone of an impartial justice system.
So this was the regional court (Landgericht). The next one is the superior regional court (Oberlandesgericht) where Google will appeal now. Since I don't see any issues of the Bavarian constitution relevant to this case, the next one up is probably the federal court of justice (Bundesgerichtshof). And there is a small chance that either Google or the courts along the way decide to throw this to the EU court of justice.
Most decisions like this get suspended upon appeal, completely or partially, until people give up or there are no more courts to pester. But every appeal will be taken seriously and goes into review at the court whether there is merit to it. That takes time. And Google has the money for a frivolous tour through the courts. And then there is the danger of court ping-pong where the superior court sends this back with notes to the regional. Whose ruling may be appealed again, etc.
Seems fair to me especially considering that google has no option to disable ai summery like duckduckgo has. I guess we can say same with duckduckgo and bing and such search engines but I am not sure if having option to disable ai summery would make a difference in court. But hey I am all there for making example out of google
They should make it so that you can disable it.
It is probably hard to filter false facts. It is also hard to generate truths. There's not really a good excuse to do the profitable thing but not the right thing.