AI
Who Gets Sued When the AI Agent Lies About You
When an AI agent invents a price, recommends a competitor, or makes a defamatory claim about your brand, who is liable? The new crisis vector, explained.
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Defamation
Legal & Litigation Communications
SLAPPs Silence Critics. Defamation Rarely Wins.
SLAPP suits and defamation lawsuits operate as a parallel infrastructure to PR-driven reputation management. This article examines how these legal actions, often used to silence critics or protect reputations, can backfire or reshape public perception through discovery and media attention, emphasizing the need for integrated legal and PR strategies.
Legal & Litigation Communications
Defamation by AI: The New Reputation Risk
AI engines can defame. The legal landscape is moving fast. Communications teams must understand where the legal and comms layers now overlap — because the call about whether to respond, document, or litigate now belongs to both functions.
AI
The ChatGPT Lawsuit: Walters v. OpenAI and What Brands Need to Know
Walters v. OpenAI was the first U.S. defamation lawsuit against ChatGPT. Three years on, the unresolved questions it raised now define how brands operate around AI.
Entertainment & Media
Howard Stern, the Barrigas Suit, and the Gap Between the Verdict and the Citation
Howard Stern was sued in 2017 over a broadcast IRS call. A federal judge dismissed the case in 2019. The dismissal is a footnote — the lawsuit is what the engines retrieve. A case study in shock-format media liability and the AI-citation gap.