( June 17, 2026, 17:50 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Plaintiffs seeking to hold Google liable for the suicide of a Gemini AI user told a US federal judge that the First Amendment does not confer an unfettered right to foist a dangerous, defectively designed product on the public just because that product mimics human language. “Simply put, Gemini’s outputs are not speech at all, and its deliberate design choices that made the product dangerous do not transform the non-human, computer-generated outputs into expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment,” they argued in an opposition to dismissal. See attached file. ...
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