Two German courts now hold Google liable for what its AI overviews say
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.
Via The Decoder
Google tried to overturn a landmark Munich ruling on liability for AI search summaries by appealing, then quietly settled. Now a second court has applied the same reasoning. Google's AI answers count as the company's own content, and Google is responsible for them.
In late May, the Munich Regional Court I ruled in a widely watched case that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI-generated search summaries. Google's AI had falsely linked two Munich-based publishers to fraud…
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