Ashley MacIsaac, who is seeking $1.5m in civil lawsuit, says inaccurate information led to concert cancellation
    • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today
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      3 days ago

      Exactly. I can’t believe he’s going for such peanuts, especially after reading all the other crap that they associated him with.

      Ashley MacIsaac, a three-time Juno award-winning musician, filed the claim in the Ontario superior court of justice, asserting that Google was liable for the “foreseeable republication” of its AI-generated Overview feature, which previously published defamatory claims that he had been convicted of multiple criminal offences, including the sexual assault of a woman, internet luring involving a child with the intention of sexual assaulting the child, and assault causing bodily harm.

      ≥Google’s AI Overview also wrongly stated that MacIsaac had been listed on the national sex offender registry for life, the lawsuit says.

      • ivanvector@piefed.caEnglish
        18·
        3 days ago

        Big punitive settlements aren’t really a thing in Canada. He probably already has to justify to the court how Google’s action led to him actually losing $1.5m. If his claim for damages was unrealistic the case would just be tossed.

        (obligatory IANAL)

        • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today
          2·
          2 days ago

          As much as I dislike them when all things are equal, that’s not the case in this world. Canada needs to change their attitude on this a bit because absurdly large punishments are one of the only ways to deter absurdly large corporations from bad behavior. Maybe punishments need to be scaled according to relative revenue of the offender.