Post by Open MIC

Looks like Google finally needs to doing something about the slop coming out of its AI Overviews. The company is facing pressure from both investors and courts: At Alphabet's recent annual meeting, a shareholder proposal addressing misinformation risks connected to Google's AI Overview received 28.9% support from independent shareholders. Typically, 20% or above means the issue is of significant concern to shareholders. Also in early June, a Munich court issued a temporary injunction against Google over false claims generated by AI Overviews about two publishers. The court concluded that AI Overviews generated independent, new, and substantive statements that were “in its own words and according to its own structure” rather than, like a conventional search engine, simply pointing users to outside websites. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ehsfwYgy