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Yeah that will probably happen, but I feel like it has no basis to really make any sense. I mean this is just the latest shiniest way of getting knowledge, and

Yeah that will probably happen, but I feel like it has no basis to really make any sense. I mean this is just the latest shiniest way of getting knowledge, and people don't really sue Google when they get wrong results. If you read something in a book as a doctor and a patient dies because it was wrong, it's also not the book that's really getting the blame. It's gonna be you for not doing the due diligence of double checking. There's zero precedence for it. The marketing department could catch a lawsuit or two for false advertising though and they'd probably deserve it.

johnnyanmac 2y ago
Firstly, Google was indeed sued many times early on over search results. Those were settled when Google simply claimed to be a middleman between queries and results. I'm not sure of modern lawsuits, but you can argue they started to become more and more of a curator as the algorithms shifted and they accepted more SEO optimization of what we now call slop. Gemini itself is first and foremost for many results, so we've more or less come full circle on that idea. I agree there's no precedence for this next iteration, and that's what the inevitable lawsuits will determine over the years, decades. I think the main difference is that these tech companies are taking more "ownership" of the results with their black boxes. And it seems like the last thing they'd do is open that box.