Microsoft Faces Defamation Lawsuit in Maryland
Summary
On July 7, 2023, Jeffrey Battle and Battle Enterprises, LLC filed a complaint against Microsoft in Maryland federal court. The complaint alleges that Microsoft’s use of AI with its search engine, Bing, conflates plaintiff Jeffrey Battle with a different Jeffrey Leon Battle who was convicted of seditious conspiracy. According to the complaint, the search engine output allegedly erroneously attributes the latter Jeffrey Battle’s conviction to the former when creating summaries of search findings.
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