<![CDATA[I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you?]]>I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you?

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Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender

Ashley MacIsaac, who is seeking $1.5m in civil lawsuit, says inaccurate information led to concert cancellation

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the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dice.camp/users/Poljack/statuses/116522340597809273https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dice.camp/users/Poljack/statuses/116522340597809273Tue, 05 May 2026 14:03:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 13:49:27 GMT]]>@Remittancegirl holy fucking shit that's horrific. Can we un-invent AI summaries?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/DraoiCrogall/statuses/116522284971416976https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/DraoiCrogall/statuses/116522284971416976Tue, 05 May 2026 13:49:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 13:35:08 GMT]]>@hanktank61 @Remittancegirl
Wow, that's quite a misrepresentation!
It's harder and harder to find reliable sources of information in this hall of mirrors!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://yeg.bike/users/EllenInEdmonton/statuses/116522228654743499https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://yeg.bike/users/EllenInEdmonton/statuses/116522228654743499Tue, 05 May 2026 13:35:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 13:32:14 GMT]]>@Remittancegirl

Wow. I feel like 1.5m is crazy low for this nightmare

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/rustoleumlove/statuses/116522217283946013https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/rustoleumlove/statuses/116522217283946013Tue, 05 May 2026 13:32:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 13:24:54 GMT]]>@Remittancegirl

Here's a CBC article about the dreadful damage done by Google to fiddler Ashley McIsaac:

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Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac sues Google over alleged defamation | CBC News

MacIsaac claims the online giant defamed him by falsely identifying him as a sex offender in an AI-generated summary.

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CBC (www.cbc.ca)

Before AI a lot of these summaries came right from Wikipedia. It's for this reason that WP has special rules prohibiting the inclusion of negative information in biographies of living people unless confirmed by reliable published sources.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://musician.social/users/Anne_Delong/statuses/116522188422053419https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://musician.social/users/Anne_Delong/statuses/116522188422053419Tue, 05 May 2026 13:24:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 13:06:48 GMT]]>@inpc @Remittancegirl I wondered the same, as this is exactly the sort of error that a statistical confabulation machine might make - and there's no way to fully prevent it from happening!

That's why this technology is inherently dangerous, no matter what guardrails are installed. There are supposedly already guardrails to prevent it doxxing people, for example, yet it can still be tricked into doing so.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/ApostateEnglishman/statuses/116522117265981029https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/ApostateEnglishman/statuses/116522117265981029Tue, 05 May 2026 13:06:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 12:56:43 GMT]]>@Remittancegirl Sought damages are 1-3 orders of magnitude too small.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/dalias/statuses/116522077639093440https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/dalias/statuses/116522077639093440Tue, 05 May 2026 12:56:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 12:53:41 GMT]]>@jik @Remittancegirl maybe I miss understood what she meant.
I am sorry

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115563894722913318/statuses/116522065717050535https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115563894722913318/statuses/116522065717050535Tue, 05 May 2026 12:53:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 12:45:43 GMT]]>@2003MugishaPhocit Your response seems to have nothing to do with @Remittancegirl's posting. You seem to have used answering her question as an excuse to go off on an irrelevant tangent in her thread. Why did you do that? It's kind of rude.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://federate.social/users/jik/statuses/116522034349093102https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://federate.social/users/jik/statuses/116522034349093102Tue, 05 May 2026 12:45:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 12:37:29 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://climatejustice.social/users/artemis/statuses/116522002007668429https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://climatejustice.social/users/artemis/statuses/116522002007668429Tue, 05 May 2026 12:37:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 12:30:52 GMT]]>@Remittancegirl he should’ve sued for more. Or Google might just pay this out of small change to make it go away.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dice.camp/users/Da_Gut/statuses/116521975971021716https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dice.camp/users/Da_Gut/statuses/116521975971021716Tue, 05 May 2026 12:30:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 12:29:14 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/staringatclouds/statuses/116521969577388026https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/staringatclouds/statuses/116521969577388026Tue, 05 May 2026 12:29:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 12:25:48 GMT]]>@Scotter oh yes, that's the nextcproblem. @Remittancegirl

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/NatureMC/statuses/116521956046618048https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/NatureMC/statuses/116521956046618048Tue, 05 May 2026 12:25:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 12:22:26 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/the_turtle/statuses/116521942780893490https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/the_turtle/statuses/116521942780893490Tue, 05 May 2026 12:22:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 12:22:20 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/NatureMC/statuses/116521942406908964https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/NatureMC/statuses/116521942406908964Tue, 05 May 2026 12:22:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 12:16:38 GMT]]>@Remittancegirl This sort of thing could get someone killed. It would only take one traumatised survivor of abuse to go vigilante. 🤬

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/ApostateEnglishman/statuses/116521919977316527https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/ApostateEnglishman/statuses/116521919977316527Tue, 05 May 2026 12:16:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 12:16:26 GMT]]>@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).

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://go.mxtthxw.art/users/inpc/statuses/01KQW12X3VPPM0P99QVZ8RHVY4https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://go.mxtthxw.art/users/inpc/statuses/01KQW12X3VPPM0P99QVZ8RHVY4Tue, 05 May 2026 12:16:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 12:15:08 GMT]]>@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...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://newsie.social/users/Scotter/statuses/116521914104090849https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://newsie.social/users/Scotter/statuses/116521914104090849Tue, 05 May 2026 12:15:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 12:02:15 GMT]]>@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”

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/PetterOfCats/statuses/116521863442544214https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/PetterOfCats/statuses/116521863442544214Tue, 05 May 2026 12:02:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 11:48:10 GMT]]>@Remittancegirl I agree. To Google $1.5 million barely rises to the level of line item.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/CatDragon/statuses/116521808055627326https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/CatDragon/statuses/116521808055627326Tue, 05 May 2026 11:48:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 11:46:23 GMT]]>@Remittancegirl that misinformation will never go away.
They ruined his life.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/CatDragon/statuses/116521801060911837https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/CatDragon/statuses/116521801060911837Tue, 05 May 2026 11:46:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 11:23:33 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/gudenau/statuses/116521711267508076https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/gudenau/statuses/116521711267508076Tue, 05 May 2026 11:23:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 11:22:04 GMT]]>@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

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Mastodon.green (mastodon.green)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hcommons.social/users/fgraver/statuses/116521705456150409https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hcommons.social/users/fgraver/statuses/116521705456150409Tue, 05 May 2026 11:22:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you? on Tue, 05 May 2026 11:11:07 GMT]]>@Remittancegirl
I am hoping he wins and that a legal precedent is set.

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