Google tried to overturn a landmark Munich ruling on AI search liability by appealing, then quietly settled. The strategy isn't working. The Aachen Regional Court just applied the exact same reasoning in a new case where Google's AI falsely attributed criminal offenses to a doctor that actually involved someone else. A consistent legal view is forming across German courts, and it treats Google's AI answers as the company's own content.
Yeah, but the US sense of “free speech” is that everyone can say “Heil Hitler” on the Internet, but the media isn’t allowed to say anything bad about the President under threat of being banned from the White House. It’s a very particular sense of “Free Speech” that protects neo-nazis but bans late-night comedians.
If it’s still unclear, don’t worry, J.D.Vance will be on another of his lecture tours of Europe to explain it all again soon enough.