AMAZON LOSES TO PERPLEXITY: THE ONE WHO HITS ENTER PAYS
If your AI agent causes damage, you are the one going to court, not the people who built it. Amazon sued Perplexity and Amazon lost.
The court decided that when Artificial Intelligence gets it wrong, the fault belongs to whoever used it, not whoever designed it, not whoever trained it, not whoever put it on the market. The user, one person at the end of the chain who typed a request into a text box.
The biggest part of this stays outside the ruling. An agent that goes shopping for you walks onto a site that isn’t yours, onto servers that aren’t yours, with access rules nobody ever read. Somebody wrote software that operates inside other people’s infrastructure without asking permission. Nobody is judging that part.
And companies were already using this line. Now they have it written down by a judge. And it covers everything. Data taken where it couldn’t be taken, copyright, access nobody authorized. Three enormous problems, one single answer. It’s the user’s fault, the user hit enter.
They’re building a wall that bounces everything back. You pay for the service, you take the damage, they collect and stay out of the courtroom.
The code that decides to get around a block was not written by the user. If an agent was built to walk past a site’s rules, that choice sits in the code, and the user doesn’t see the code, doesn’t control it, can’t even know it’s there.
From here on the agents get more reckless, not less, because the harder they push the better they work. And someone else signs the bill.
It always ends this way, when whoever designs the risk isn’t the one paying for it.
What do you think?
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