Hacker News: burpingtreehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=burpingtreeHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:53:42 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by burpingtree in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"]]>What don’t you understand? Those websites that defame a company are liable for that defamation. In this case Google defamed a company in its AI summary and is this liable for that defamation.

]]>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:04:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470889burpingtreehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470889https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470889<![CDATA[New comment by burpingtree in "Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)"]]>This is a very odd view to me, but seems prevalent here in this thread. I think treating a machine like a human is extremely degrading to humans. A machine should never be treated like it’s anything approaching a human.

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You are misunderstanding the saying. It is entirely about unintended consequences and viewing the system for what it actually does and not any stated intentions of the designers.

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