A Potential Death Blow To AI Search - WAN Show June 12, 2026

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**Luke Lafrenière** (0:29)
What is up, everyone, and welcome to The WAN Show. We've got a great show lined up for you guys today. Google has been found liable for information provided by AI overview. This is in Germany, so it might not necessarily be helpful to everyone, but it is a step towards holding Big Tech accountable for the information that it propagates with its, let's call them, sophisticated and yet foundationally flawed AI technology. In other news, speaking of flawed technology, Donut Labs' solid state battery has been exposed as a regular lithium ion thanks to some incredible work from one of our fellow YouTubers, who I...
Oh, man, I hate it when people do this.
So whose name I'm actually going to use, unlike the way that people usually cite YouTubers, Xeroth. Fantastic video we're going to be talking about a little bit later. No, don't you hate that, Luke? When the headline of a traditional media article is, YouTuber does this.

**Dan** (1:40)
YouTuber, yeah.

**Luke Lafrenière** (1:41)
YouTuber has a name. What else we got this week?

**Dan** (1:47)
You can just tell the Instagram algorithm what you want now, which is actually kind of interesting.
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**Luke Lafrenière** (2:12)
So is this one of those cases where even a broken clock is right twice a day, Palantir did something that we're supportive of?

**Dan** (2:23)
Well, let's get more into it.

**Luke Lafrenière** (2:47)
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All right, why don't we jump right into our headline topic, which is that Google has been found liable for information provided by AI overview. In a potential landmark case, the Regional Court of Munich has ruled that Google, if they're going to have their product spit out an output based on all of the data that they ingested, some of it legally, some of it, it seems, were still questioning the legality of it, they're accountable for what it says, which maybe is a good thing, the same way that newspapers were accountable for what they printed and radio shows are accountable for what they say. Well, Google's AI is also accountable. Yeah, if you're a mass media outlet and you reach literally millions of people, you should have some accountability for having there be a factual basis to the things that are being propagated.

**Dan** (4:04)
Sure, I just don't know how often that actually applies. It applied to, what's his name?

**Luke Lafrenière** (4:15)
You're not going to bring up Alex. You are. Okay, that's where you're going with it. Well, yeah, I mean, it relies on somebody to actually hold you accountable to it in many cases, but there is an expectation that if you are spreading information, that you are responsible for the accuracy of it. The case was initially brought by two German publishing companies after Google's AI Overview presented information about them, combined with that of shady companies and online scams, and then drew information that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. Which, I mean, Luke, have you ever experienced that with Google's AI Overview, where it goes blah, blah, blah, this thing, citation, and then you click it?
Completely not in there.

**Dan** (5:08)
Citations by AIs are pretty sketchy in general. But this does line up, this was pointed out by Float Plane Chat as well, but I think I lost the message. But this does line up with other things. There's customer support chat bots, where what they say has been held as fact. So the customer support chat bot offers you something, and the company is held to follow through with it.
Did I just see it? I thought I just saw it. So somebody in chat pointed out, I think it was Air Canada. Yeah, Page in chat said, Air Canada was already held liable for something incorrect, their support chat bot said. I think there was other companies as well, not just Air Canada. So it follows other things.