{"id":9736,"date":"2026-06-12T12:01:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9736"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:01:36","slug":"nobody-needs-ai-to-search-the-internet-court-says-in-ruling-against-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9736","title":{"rendered":"Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong><br \/>\n                    Ashley Belanger<br \/>\n                <\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nJune 10, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Potentially impacting all AI search engines and chatbots known to poorly paraphrase source links, a German court has <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Google-AI-Overview-Munich-Court-Ruling.pdf\">ruled<\/a> that Google is liable for false statements in AI Overviews.<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary ruling came in a case <a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers\/\">flagged by The Decoder<\/a>, where two publishers found that Google&#8217;s AI Overviews incorrectly linked them to scams and other sketchy business practices. After smearing publishers by making affirmative statements like &#8220;Yes, [it] is known for dubious business practices and is often perceived as a scam,&#8221; Google failed to correct the misleading output, even after the publishers sent a cease-and-desist letter earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Google tried the usual arguments to shield itself from liability for false statements in AI Overviews, such as arguing that most users understand that AI outputs aren&#8217;t always accurate and must be verified.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/06\/nobody-needs-ai-to-search-the-internet-court-says-in-ruling-against-google\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/06\/nobody-needs-ai-to-search-the-internet-court-says-in-ruling-against-google\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/06\/nobody-needs-ai-to-search-the-internet-court-says-in-ruling-against-google\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Belanger &bull; June 10, 2026 Potentially impacting all AI search engines and chatbots known to poorly paraphrase source links, a German court has ruled that Google is liable for false statements in AI Overviews. The preliminary ruling came in a case flagged by The Decoder, where two publishers found that Google&#8217;s AI Overviews incorrectly<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9736\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}