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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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Google’s AI Overview about MacIsaac now includes the statement: “In late 2025 and 2026, he made headlines for taking legal action against Google.”
lmao fuck off google.
Now they will accuse random people, to draw attention away from the pedo in chief.
Satiation. If you say it enough it loses meaning, then becomes normalized to people, that’s part of the goal effect when they accuse others of what they’re doing.
BzzBiotchGot mixed up with his brother: Canadian Diddler
Oh brother! I’m giving you the upvote, but I don’t like it
A reluctant upvote is still an upvote. Thusly I thank you 🙏🏻
is it only the uk that calls child abusers kiddy fiddlers hence the lingual confusion?
I thought the UK called them nonces?
Don’t wanna be a Canadian diddler
🎸🎶
Mixed him up with his brother, the fiddler
🎸🎶
Cause one thing was just not his style
🎸🎶
And that was being a pdf file
🎸🎶
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the maple leaf nation
Where musicians are slanderd by the claaaaankers
🎵🎶🎻*EPIC SOLO*🎻🎶🎵
And when all of man was judged by a bot
Innocence became a thing of the past
Everyone was mixed up and noone was clean
There was nothing left to do…
Than to diddle the machine
🎶🎸🤖🍆
Lexam
leadoreOnly $1.5 million? That’s peanuts, especially to Google and especially for such heinous defamation. It should be for at least 100 million.
mercInternet companies have become way too used to hiding behind Section 230 of the Communications Act which allows them to say that anything on their sites was created by a user, not by them, and therefore they’re not liable. This made sense when the Internet was just chronological forums and there was no way for the operator to know that something defamatory or illegal had been posted.
They’ve managed to maintain that fiction, even when hand-picking content they want to show. Now they have algorithms that scan all the content people post, even videos, decide which content is going to generate the most views, clicks and engagement, and choose to prioritize that content, even if it is illegal.
But, now, with AI, they’re actually the ones generating that content. There’s no user to hide behind anymore. Let’s hope that the courts say that section 230 doesn’t protect them here and that they’re liable for all false claims made with AI, just as they’d be liable if it were an employee or the boss who posted it.
Ok that’s pretty amusing.
Neon_CarnivoreYeah, corpo AI error bullshit potentially ruining your life and livelihood, totally hilarious.
/s
Kinda reminds me of the fiasco with that Markiplier stream a few years ago.
Something happened with some emoji iirc, where if you reacted to something in the stream chat with said emoji Google used to have some sort of hidden bullshit policy where you couldn’t “spam” emojis in stream chats (and that’s what Mark was using as a voting method during his stream), because it triggered something in Google’s automation that would flag your Google account (the ENTIRE FUCKING THING) as going against TOS and deleted/suspended indefinitely the whole account. Like, thousands of people’s personal email accounts were just locked down with no way for the users to get into it. Mark had to make an entire separate video calling out YouTube/Google for being such fucking idiots and taking their sweet goddamn time trying to fix it.
Do we know what the emoji was?
From my googling, it wasn’t a specific emoji, but the fact that people were posting multiple in a row in a single message
Which is still utterly fucking stupid.
Yeah that’s dumb as hell, talk about disconnected. There are all kinds of slang and folks tend to emoji in response to emoji.
When it’s not every third word I don’t find it as annoying, just string them all at the end or say something cryptic like 👴🏼🐌📸🌱♥️
Ruining someone’s life is so funny to you I guess
Yeah kinda like when Ian Huntley was caught for being a horrendous pedo and everyone thought it was H from ‘Steps’.
If you think Google’s is bad, wait till you hear about the one the dbzer0 instance admins and mods are running on random people on the fediverse…
I mean, it’s not like I trust Google, but I trust random “anarchists” even less.
If you’re cool with it, then you’re cool with it.
But it’s relevant
“it’s not like I trust a multi billion dollar corporation that’s actively been busy enshittifying the whole internet first and now the whole world, but I trust a group of random people who run a Lemmy instance even less”
that’s either bait or stupid.
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Ah, the ole’ fiddler/diddler switcheroo.
The Diddler on the Roof does sound like it’d make for a captivating musical though. Shades of The Nightman Cometh.
Diddler on the Roof
In British and Australian slang at the very least, “k*ddie fiddler” is a legitimate euphemism for, well, you know.
Would not be surprised if that’s somewhere at the root of the miscategorisation.
Google:
“No need to sue us. Mr Maclsaac was listed in Google search as a sex offender, but wasn’t actually on the sex offender registry. But no worry, we’ve fixed the problem! We have several government records contracts. Our LLM simply corrected the record and added Ashley to the sex offender registry. The error has been resolved.”
Guitarists are often fingering a minor
It’s a common misconception about fiddlers. It’s actually saxophonists.
I did not have saxual relations with that woman.
Buttle, Tuttle. Fiddler, diddler.
These things happen with AI.