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Canadian fiddler sues Google after ~~AI Overview~~ the people who run Google wrongly claimed he was a sex offender
Did the AI just see "fiddler" and go zoomer-slang mode
I knew exactly who it would be.
25 or 30 years ago he was in a bit of hot water for flashing people because he was wearing a kilt without anything under it while performing. That's probably all it took for the LLM to go down the garden path.
He's a bit of a character.
Googles AI: Fiddler, diddler, what's the difference
The D
Can one put a price on a damaged reputation? $1.5m is too small.
Exactly. I can't believe he's going for such peanuts, especially after reading all the other crap that they associated him with.
Ashley MacIsaac, a three-time Juno award-winning musician, filed the claim in the Ontario superior court of justice, asserting that Google was liable for the “foreseeable republication” of its AI-generated Overview feature, which previously published defamatory claims that he had been convicted of multiple criminal offences, including the sexual assault of a woman, internet luring involving a child with the intention of sexual assaulting the child, and assault causing bodily harm.
≥Google’s AI Overview also wrongly stated that MacIsaac had been listed on the national sex offender registry for life, the lawsuit says.
Big punitive settlements aren't really a thing in Canada. He probably already has to justify to the court how Google's action led to him actually losing $1.5m. If his claim for damages was unrealistic the case would just be tossed.
(obligatory IANAL)
I anal too but please keep it on topic
:p
I hate this response.
But I laughed. 🤣
Wrong kind of fiddler.
Finally! Automated defamation lawsuits!