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The policy draws the liability line: what changed in v1.2.0
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The law is moving in a direction that makes this matter. The EU's new Product Liability Directive counts software as a product, with member states to apply it from 9 December 2026, and Germany's Bundestag passed its version on 8 October, extending product liability to the makers of AI systems. Its scope is narrower than the post implies, death, injury, property damage and lost data rather than every harmful action, but it changes the default from "the customer accepted the terms" to "was the product defective". A policy the product accepted and then broke is the cleareststrong evidence of a defect I can think of.defect.
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