Google is fighting the defamation battle Meta caved on

Google filed a question to disregard a defamation suit brought by anti-corporate diverseness activistic Robby Starbuck, who claimed Google’s AI falsely associated him with intersexual battle allegations and a achromatic nationalist.

Starbuck’s claims against Google came aft helium filed a akin suit against Meta, whose AI helium claimed falsely asserted that he’d participated successful the January 6th riot astatine the US Capitol. But Meta settled that lawsuit successful August and adjacent hired Starbuck arsenic an advisor to assistance code “ideological and governmental bias” successful its AI chatbot, The Wall Street Journal reported. The outlet noted past month that truthful far, nary US tribunal had awarded damages for defamation by an AI chatbot.

Starbuck is seeking $15 cardinal successful damages from Google. But the institution says successful its filing that his claims simply correspond his “misuse of developer tools to induce hallucinations.” Starbuck doesn’t place what prompts helium utilized to make the outputs astatine issue, according to Google, oregon immoderate existent idiosyncratic who was misled by the alleged claims. Starbuck did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Google, of course, could yet take a akin way to Meta to resoluteness the claims. But astatine slightest for now, it’s choosing to combat them successful court.