Ashley MacIsaac ends defamation suit over Google AI sex-offender claim

“It’s never simple in a defamation case, but I think a court is likely to consider the AI-generated overview as content created by Google itself. At that point, they would no longer be a re-publisher, but the original author,” she says. “The law is pretty tech-neutral, so my position would be that it doesn’t matter whether it was their software or a person who wrote it; they’re liable the same way.”