A court in the Bavarian capital of Munich on Friday ruled that search engine operator Google can be held directly liable for incorrect answers generated by its "AI overview" feature.

The legal dispute had centered on whether the service should receive the same legal treatment as conventional search results.

Judges at the Munich Regional Court I were asked to rule on lawsuits filed against the internet giant by two Munich-based publishing companies.

Google's overview feature had erroneously linked the companies to dubious business practices, subscription traps and fraudulent schemes. It had ​​linked the plaintiffs with information about other, genuinely shady companies and invented connections that did not exist.



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Doesn't surprise me, AI Overviews still confidently summarize outdated or flat-out wrong info pulled from old cached pages. Curious if this pushes more "show your source" transparency into how these answers get generated.