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

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

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

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

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

[eetschrijver@mastodon.social]

@Remittancegirl I can a little. Once the internet decides that you are a sex offender, your life changes forever.

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@Remittancegirl
AI summaries need to be illegal.

AI in search needs to be illegal. Return a real URL and start of text directly from it.

Mostly shortens and often totally wrong.

Test with stuff you are expert on.

Should I sue DuckDuckGo for totally wrong synopsis of my "Jewels and Rooks"? The returned text was like from a Scandi Noir mystery and unrelated to any of my novels or the blurb (which is online).

[vwdasher@mymasto.com]

@Remittancegirl that is just so fucked. He deserves far more than a measly 1.5m for that. Jesus christ.

[nini@oldbytes.space]

@Remittancegirl It is a terrifying thought to be in that position but then that's outweighed by the notion it's happening at all and could happen to anyone at random.

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

@nini It could happen to any of us.

[2003mugishaphocit@mastodon.social]

@Remittancegirl I cannot.
However,everyone has his own interests in life.
Some interested to be great politicians,warriors,artists and others.
And this comes according to everyone's abilities.

[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).