Even Google’s AI Overview Introduced by comics The beginning of Rockyit will face more serious challenges. Penske Media, Publisher Rolling stones, variety, advertising boards Submitted with others litigation Oppose Google, claiming that the tech giant illegally provided the content of its website for its AI overview feature. Penske claimed in the lawsuit that the AI feature also “eavesdropping and dissuading user traffic to PMC and other publisher websites,” adding that “the revenue generated by these visits will drop.”
The lawsuit was filed in the Federal District Court of Washington, D.C., claiming that about 20% of Google searches related to one of Penske’s websites have an AI overview. Media companies believe that this percentage will continue to increase, with their membership revenue falling by more than a third from 2024. Google spokesman Jose Castaneda said the tech giant would “resist these priceless claims” and that “AI overview sends traffic to larger locations.”
Google faced similar lawsuits earlier this year cheggis an educational technology company known for textbook rentals. Like Penske Media, the lawsuit claims Google’s AI overview hurts Chegg’s website traffic and revenue. However, the Penske lawsuit is Google’s first legal action against the AI search capabilities of major U.S. publishers.
In addition to Google’s legal troubles, other AI companies are also facing their own court cases. 2023, The New York Times Prosecuted Openaiclaiming that the AI company used news articles to train its chatbots without compensation. Recently, humans agreed to pay $1.5 billion settlement In class action lawsuits, the use of copyrighted works by its Claude Chatbot.
