Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me

I really hope this stays up, despite the politics involvement to a degree. I think this is a situation that is a perfect example of how AI hallucinations/lack of accuracy could significantly impact our lives going forward. A very nuanced and serious topic with lots of back and forth being distilled down to headlines by any source, it is a terrifying reality. Especially if we aren't able to communicate how these tools work to the public. (if they even will care to learn it) At least when humans did this they knew at some level at least they skimmed the information on the person/topic.

One of the arguments used to justify the mass-ingestion of copyrighted content to build these models is that the resulting model is a transformative work, and thus fair use.

If this is indeed true, it seems like Google et al must be liable for output like this according to their own argument, i.e. if the work is transformative, they can’t claim someone else is liable.

These companies can’t have their cake and eat it too. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.