"Filed in Washington DC federal court, the lawsuit from Penske Media accuses Google of causing "millions of dollars of harm" and reaping "illegal profits." Google mandates that publishers allow their content to be used to train its AI summary feature if they want their links to be included in search results, according to the complaint."
"The result, according to Penske, is that Google is robbing publishers of the proceeds they would receive by licensing the rights to their articles or selling advertising based on web traffic that is instead gobbled up by the Big Tech giant's AI tools. "Google's conduct threatens to leave the public with an increasingly unrecognizable Internet experience, in which users never leave Google's walled garden and receive only synthetic, error-ridden answers in response to their queries-a once robust but now hollowed-out information ecosystem of little use and unworthy of trust," the company's lawsuit says."
"Aside from hurting the news industry, AI Overviews often spits out blatantly false "hallucinations" - such as its recent false claim that the rapper Eminem performed at the funeral of Jeff Bezos's mother. Penske, whose media properties also include Variety and Deadline, said about 20% of Google search results have an AI-generate summary placed above the link to their original work."
Penske Media, owner of Rolling Stone, Variety, Deadline, and The Hollywood Reporter, filed a federal lawsuit in Washington, D.C., alleging that Google’s AI Overviews copies articles without permission and forces publishers to allow use of their content to appear in search. Penske claims Google causes millions of dollars in harm and pockets illegal profits by diverting licensing revenue and advertising-based web traffic into Google’s AI features. AI-generated summaries appear above traditional links in many search results, reducing referral impressions and traffic. Penske also alleges that AI Overviews produces false "hallucinations" and degrades the broader online information ecosystem.
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