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Comment by Regional Court of Munich I (Landgericht München I)

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German regional court; issued the 2026 ruling (Case 26 O 869/26) holding Google directly liable for false statements generated by its AI Overviews
[Google's AI Overviews are] the defendant's own statements [...] it alone has influence over the AI's offering and the algorithms with which the AI operates.
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AI Verified Verified. The Decoder article contains the English wording "the defendant's own statements" and "because it alone has influence over the AI's offering and the algorithms with which the AI operates." The underlying 28 May 2026 judgment of LG München I (26 O 869/26) says the AI overview is an "eigene ... Äußerung" / "eigene ... Aussagen" of the defendant and that "nur sie hat Einfluss auf das Angebot der KI und auf die Algorithmen, mit denen die KI operiert," so the quoted English is a faithful translation/compression and is correctly attributed to the Regional Court of Munich I. ([the-decoder.com](https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Checked author attribution, year, case number, vote alignment, and quote content. The source_url (the-decoder.com) returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch, but multiple independent web searches corroborated the quote verbatim: the Regional Court of Munich I (Landgericht München I), case no. 26 O 869/26, ruling of May 28, 2026, called Google's AI Overviews "the defendant's own statements" and held Google liable "because it alone has influence over the AI's offering and the algorithms with which the AI operates." Year 2026 is correct and recent. The ruling holds Google directly liable for harms from its deployed AI, which correctly aligns with the "for" vote on the statement "AI companies should be liable for harms caused by their deployed models." Corroborating sources: Slashdot, Yahoo News, heise online, The Next Web, Silicon Republic, MLQ News, ppc.land (all June 2026). · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 20d ago
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