There's some nuance here that the headline doesn't really capture. Google was found liable by a judge because its AI-generated search output produced some false statements about the publishers it referenced. So the core argument here is that the person who publishes the statement is liable, even if it was an AI that generated it. As it should be. The nuance is found in the fact that the search engine would not be held liable for false statements produced by other sites that showed up in the search. So if the NY Post published a lie, and it showed it in a search result, Google wasn't liable. Again, as it should be. Google tried to use this as a defense, saying the AI output was produced in the context of producing search results. Which would be a defense if you needed AI-generated text to produce search results. But you don't. Hence, the headline.
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