A German court just told Google that a disclaimer does not make its AI someone else's problem.

On May 28, 2026, the Regional Court of Munich I ruled that Google's AI Overviews, the summaries that sit above the search links, are Google's own statements rather than ordinary search results, so the company answers when those summaries are false. In this episode the hosts walk through the ruling, the two publishers an AI summary tied to scams and subscription traps that no cited source supported, the reasoning that reaches past search into any answer engine, the defenses the court rejected, and why New York's Part 161 lands on the same accountability principle from the opposite direction.

The hosts also cover the part that turns this into real exposure, a fine of up to 250,000 euros per violation and an order that Google carry about 80 percent of the costs, alongside a July 2025 Pew finding that readers click a source inside an AI summary only about one percent of the time. The closing idea is simple, because a disclaimer is never the party who answers. The tool can generate the answer. It cannot answer for it.

Read the full article, with every case citation and source: https://basilpuglisi.com/munich-ai-overviews-accountability

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