We’re well into the AI boom, and AI chatbots still suffer from the small problem of being serial liars. Late last month, Republican senator Marsha Blackburn tore into Google after its AI model, Gemma, falsely claimed that Blackburn had been accused of rape when asked if there were any such allegations against her. AI hallucinations, at least for the time being, aren’t going away, meaning that chatbots’ wayward responses will continue to expose AI companies to litigation as courts slowly make sense of what to do with them. But does that apply to generative AI, since the AIs themselves are generating the content and not merely resharing it? In a 2023 case against Google, Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch said that, no, the protection doesn’t apply to AI generated content.