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I presented a group of publishers A fight against monopoly in the European Union against Google because of its use of an overview of artificial intelligenceAccording to a Reuters report last week. Artificial Intelligence Overview is the results of artificial intelligence trained on the online content that appear at the top of Google searches.
The complaint comes from a group of independent publishers who want to take some measures against Google Dressing and re -fill their content, according to the Reuters document.
“Google’s basic search engine service misuses the web content is a general overview of Google in Google Search, which caused, and continues to cause great damage to publishers, including news publishers in the form of traffic, readers and revenue loss,” partially read the document. The complaint also said that publishers did not have the option to cancel the subscription to their training materials without losing visibility as well.
“More than any other company, Google gives priority to sending traffic to the web, and we send billions of clicks to web sites every day. New AI experiences in search enable people to ask more questions, creating new opportunities for content and companies to discover them,” Google spokesman said in a statement.
Google argues that an artificial intelligence overview sends high -quality clicks to sites. These are users who spend more time in posts. Even so, it is difficult to know if the potential gain of high -quality clicks compensates for a decrease in alleged total traffic due to obtaining answers created from artificial intelligence immediately in the research.
Representatives of the independent publisher and anti -monopoly department in the European Union immediately did not respond to the suspension requests.
Publisher online movement Currently in the fall With some of the largest online sites, you see a 27-59 % decrease, according to similar estimates. Indeed, the publishers are looking towards “Google Zero“The future in which the sites are built direct contacts with readers and relying on people who stumble on sites by searching online.
Without the flow of the mass for clicks by searching, many sites, including CNN and freedomCreate Paywalls walls, and ask readers to participate in accessing content. At the same time, the publishing industry is back strongly, and filed lawsuits against Openaiand Microsoft and Confusion On their use of copyrights to train artificial intelligence models.
(Disclosure: Zif Davis, the parent company CNET, filed a lawsuit against Openai, claimed that it had violated the copyright of ZifF Davis in training and operating artificial intelligence systems.)
Artificial intelligence companies also return to the court, saying that their use of the publisher’s content is “fair use”. Courts, in some cases, They agree with Big Tech.
It is not surprising that the publishers are defensive to their content. Indeed, the publishing industry has seen a major impact on its work, which led to demobilization and closure. 2,900 local journalists closed in the United States since 2005, according to a study of Northwestern University 2025 was also A difficult year to be a journalistWith the demobilization of workers that strike CNN, Vox, HuffPost and NBC.