Google faces a fresh antitrust investigation in Brussels over whether it ripped off copyrighted material to train its artificial intelligence models without properly compensating publishers, the European Commission announced Tuesday.
Google faces a fresh antitrust investigation in Brussels over whether it ripped off copyrighted material to train its artificial intelligence models without properly compensating publishers, the European Commission announced Tuesday.
The European Union’s antitrust cops expressed concern that Google used web publishers’ articles and videos to build its “AI Overviews” search summary feature and “AI Mode” search function without paying them or allowing them to opt out.
The investigation is centered on Google’s handling of articles from news publishers and content creators, as well as videos uploaded to YouTube.
“AI is bringing remarkable innovation and many benefits for people and businesses across Europe, but this progress cannot come at the expense of the principles at the heart of our societies,” EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribera said in a statement.
