I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you?

[mzedp@plasmatrap.com]

@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social There must be a ton of these cases - https://www.startribune.com/google-ai-overview-lawsuit-defamation-great-river-electric/601371780

[dckim@mastodon.social]

@Remittancegirl it's a good thing that I used that AI to run all of my optimization work for my project before they have to shut it down...

You should see what else the silly thing lies about. It basically will tell you that accounts on mastodon are attributed to famous people. If you refute, it will insist convincingly.

It's like a machine that will automatically lie to you.

[secret_squirrel@mastodon.social]

@otte_homan @Remittancegirl Three zeros. Make it billions and maybe these companies will pay attention.

[ariarhythmic@ohai.social]

@otte_homan @Remittancegirl Two zeroes maybe?

[hanktank61@nerdjoy.social]

@Remittancegirl Adding to that, it becomes more shocking by the day to hear people around me telling something as fact, because they heard , read it on G&Co . Not doubting anything they read there.
Those are people from all ages, not just the oldies.

[quoidian@mastodon.online]

@Remittancegirl
I am hoping he wins and that a legal precedent is set.

[fgraver@hcommons.social]

@Remittancegirl Then there’s this, related, issue. Microsoft this time.

Gerry McGovern (@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green)

"A retired journalist was falsely accused of serious crimes by Microsoft Copilot. The AI linked his name to criminal cases he once reported on and published personal details, including his address and phone number." https://amp.dw.com/en/ai-chatbot-falsely-accuses-journalist-of-crimes/video-77013145

Mastodon.green (mastodon.green)

[gudenau@hachyderm.io]

@Remittancegirl This is the kind of thing that I don't think you can actually recover from because there are going to be people who refuse to believe that Google made it up. Oof.

[catdragon@mastodon.world]

@Remittancegirl that misinformation will never go away.
They ruined his life.

[catdragon@mastodon.world]

@Remittancegirl I agree. To Google $1.5 million barely rises to the level of line item.

[petterofcats@mastodon.world]

@Remittancegirl the only problem AI solves is accountability.
“Silly AI was just hallucinating”
“Can’t blame me, it was AI”
“We let the AI make the decisions”
“AI will be be AI”

[scotter@newsie.social]

@Remittancegirl
This is terrible. About the worst thing you can be accused of.

It also gives real pedophiles a way to introduce doubt in their records. Oh, it's a hallucination...

[inpc@go.mxtthxw.art]

@Remittancegirl oofff that's horrible.

I wonder if it's because he's a fiddler and kiddie fiddler is common slang (at least in the UK).

[apostateenglishman@mastodon.world]

@Remittancegirl This sort of thing could get someone killed. It would only take one traumatised survivor of abuse to go vigilante. 🤬

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@Remittancegirl No, I can't, the horror is too immense.
But I can imagine that it can break and kill people confronted to it, having less means or energy to fight.
And as everthing happens on social media nowadays, their life will never be the same again.

[the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org]

@Remittancegirl the horror of having your picture published in The Guardian... backwards?

I don't know, maybe he has a special left-hand fiddle and plays it backwards, but I've never seen it happen.

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@Scotter oh yes, that's the nextcproblem. @Remittancegirl

[staringatclouds@mstdn.social]

@Remittancegirl $1.5 million is nowhere near enough, Google won't even notice it

1.5% of annual profit would be closer to the mark

[da_gut@dice.camp]

@Remittancegirl he should’ve sued for more. Or Google might just pay this out of small change to make it go away.

[artemis@climatejustice.social]

@Remittancegirl he should be suing for ten times that much. That sort of thing puts him at real risk. It's not trivial, and Google should pay.