Google faces a new lawsuit accusing the company of illegally creating AI summary that damages its business using the content of a news publisher.
The lawsuit comes from Penske Media (PMC), which houses industry publications such as Rolling Stones, Billboards, Variety Shows, Hollywood Reporter, Deadlines, Ambient and Artforum. Penske’s suit is the first lawsuit against Google and its parent company Alphabet, rather than displaying AI-generated summary, both of which are Publisher and author Other AI companies have been sued for questions about related copyright issues.
Since launching the AI overview last year, Google has been Criticized for threatening business models The same publisher it relies on provides what you need to create accurate AI summary and answers.
The new lawsuit is to accuse Google of continuing to “wave its monopoly to force PMC to allow Google to republish content for PMC in an AI overview” and use that content “for training and grounding AI models.”
Google spokesman José Castañeda said in a statement that the AI overview makes Google searches “more helpful” and creates “new opportunities to discover content.”
“Every day, Google sends billions of clicks on the website, and AI overview sends traffic to more sites,” Castañeda said. “We’ll defend these priceless claims.”
The lawsuit argues that while Penske allows Google to crawl in “exchange traffic exchange,” a “basic bargaining that supports the production of content on open commercial webs,” Google recently “started to associate its involvement in that bargaining with another deal that PMC and other publishers are reluctant to agree to.”
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“As a condition for indexing the indexed content of the index, Google now requires publishers to provide content for other purposes as well,” the lawsuit claims.
The lawsuit also claims that Penske “has dropped dramatically since Google began launching an AI overview.” This means publishers’ advertising revenues are reduced and it also threatens subscription and membership revenues, Penske said: “These revenue sources actually rely on people. Visit PMC site. ”
Although Google objected to the complaint of AI overview reducing publisher traffic, the lawsuit said: “Google does not provide reliable competitive information about search recommendation traffic.”
Penske’s lawsuit comes after Google appears to have evaded antitrust bullets – and a federal judge ruled that the company took illegal action to maintain a monopoly in online searches, Don’t order companies to destroy their business (by selling Chrome, for example), partly because of the increasing competition for AI.
