Rolling Stone owner Penske Media sues Google over AI summaries

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Google has faced a new case for illegal use of news publishers to make the damaged AI summary of their business.

The case comes from Penkey Media (PMC), which owns art publishing like Rolling Stone, Billboard, Diversity, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Vibe and Art Forum. Pencase suit shows the AI-arded summary in search of Google and its original company’s alphabet first, both Publisher And Writer Related copyright concerns have sued other AI companies.

Google has since launched AI overviews last year Criticized It depends on providing the contents required to create the correct AI summaries and answers to the same publishers.

Google has “to strengthen its exclusive to force PMC to re -inscribe of PMC in AI overviews” and the new case is farther by accusing Google continued to use its AI models for training.

Google spokesman Jose Casteda said in a statement that AI Overviews made Google search “more helpful” and create “new opportunities to discover content.”

“Every day, Google sends billions of clicks across sites across the web and AI overviews send traffic to the larger variety of sites,” said Casteda. “We will protect against this qualified claim.”

The case argued that Google allowed Google to crawl its websites in “exchange for traffic for traffic” which “Google and other publishers do not intentionally consent in this transaction that supports the production of content for the Open Commercial Web”

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“As a condition of publisher’s content launch of the search for the search, Google now has to provide the contents for other uses that the search referrals are transmitted or prepimt,” claim that the only way to choose Pens is to completely remove themselves, which will be disturbed. “

The case further claimed that since Google AI Overviews in Penask started roll out of Google Searchs, clicks have been significantly reduced. “It means low advertising income for the publisher, and it also threatens to subscription and approved revenue, Penask says:“ These revenue streams actually depend on humans Inspect PMC site. “

And when Google retreated against the allegations that AI overviews reduce traffic to publishers, the case states “Google did not offer any credible competitive information regarding the Google Search Referral Traffic.”

Google has apparently pushed an unbelievable bullet to Penkey’s case – a federal judge on the other Did not instruct the agency to break his business (For example sells chrome), as part of the growing competition in AI.

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