{"id":737460,"date":"2026-06-15T05:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/737460\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T05:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:36:10","slug":"bavarian-court-tells-gemini-it-cant-be-a-real-boy-until-it-tells-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/737460\/","title":{"rendered":"Bavarian Court Tells Gemini It Can\u2019t Be A Real Boy Until It Tells The Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does anyone like Google\u2019s AI summaries? If so, they weren\u2019t on the Judge\u2019s bench in a specific Bavarian courtroom recently, where it was ruled that yes, Google is liable for the hallucinations of its search engine AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This was a civil case brought by a pair of Munich companies, both of whom were wrongfully slandered by LLM hallucinations. Google took the position that this information must have existed somewhere, and like presenting links to libelous websites \u2014 something they have no obligation to avoid \u2014 they should not be held accountable for what the summary at the top of the search results says.<\/p>\n

Understandably, the judges ruled otherwise: this isn\u2019t content Google is linking to. This is text that Google has generated. That they\u2019re using the crappiest LLM model this side of a Commodore 64<\/a> to generate it doesn\u2019t matter \u2014 the company is creating the text, and the company is liable, just as if a human employee wrote it by hand. If that human employee was so inept that he was giving other meatbags a bad name, like the search summaries do with Gemini, it wouldn\u2019t help Google\u2019s liability, either.<\/p>\n

This could be a landmark ruling, though it isn\u2019t final; Google does have the chance to appeal, and they absolutely will. If the appeal falls through, it\u2019s not unlikely that Google will pull the plug on AI summaries on searches from the Federal Republic. Finally, a reason to point your VPN at Berlin. Any Germans hosting their own AI agents <\/a>may also want to take note of the final ruling.<\/p>\n

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