Legal Analysis: Can You Sue ChatGPT or Google Gemini for Providing Wrong Advice?
What happens when AI chatbot gives dangerously wrong advice, and someone gets hurt, loses money, or worse?
AI chatbots are everywhere. They answer questions, give tips, and sometimes issue wrong advice. From dangerous health advice to fake consumer product review, things go wrong more often than people think. When they do, the primary question is who takes the blame. This post looks at real examples of when AI provides misleading advice, how companies try to avoid responsibility, and what the law actually says about it.
Can You Sue That AI Chatbot?
If you consulted Dr. Chatbot about a rash, and it suggested a dubious home remedy that landed you in the ER. Now you are fuming. The chatbot’s "advice" was terrible.
Can you actually sue the chatbot for giving wrong advice?
It is a question more people are asking as AI digital assistants like ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot, and Meta’s assorted AI’s become ever more popular, and occasionally, spectacularly wrong.
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