Google’s controversial AI-generated summaries — which have been blamed for crushing the traffic of US news sites — have drawn an antitrust complaint in the European Union from a group of independent publishers.
The complaint by the Independent Publishers Alliance accuses the Sundar Pichai-led Big Tech giant of abusing its dominant position in online search by promoting its own AI-generated summaries over links to original content.
The filing, submitted on June 30, requests that the European Commission impose interim measures to prevent what it describes as “irreparable harm” to publishers.
Google’s artificial intelligence tools are being blamed for harming publishers’ businesses. Koshiro K – stock.adobe.com
“Google’s core search engine service is misusing web content for Google’s AI Overviews in Google Search, which have caused, and continue to cause, significant harm to publishers, including news publishers in the form of traffic, readership and revenue loss,” the complaint alleges.
The complaint comes