French newspapers target Google over AI summaries
APIG said the summaries could erode website traffic as Google expands AI Overviews and media groups seek compensation for using their content.
- On Tuesday, a federation of nearly 300 French newspapers filed a complaint with the country's competition authority over Google's AI-generated summaries, alleging the feature violates a 2022 content compensation deal.
- APIG president Marc Feuillee stated publishers seek not to halt innovation but to share value from their content, as media groups have faced declining revenue for two decades amid tech firms' online ad dominance.
- Business owner Damian Mansell reported Google's AI incorrectly labeled his company, The Plastics Shed, as having "overwhelmingly negative" feedback despite his paying nearly $700 monthly for advertisements.
- Chirag Shah, a professor at the University of Washington's Information School, warned that AI overviews prioritize "The Answer" over balanced perspectives, risking significant errors given Google's five trillion annual searches.
- The EU is investigating whether Google breached competition rules regarding publisher content, adding pressure following a $290 million fine in 2024 and a $1.5 million lawsuit alleging AI-generated defamation.
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In July, Google introduced a new feature with AI-curated content in France: Now the publishers have joined forces to sue the so-called AI Overviews.
In France, around 300 newspapers are acting jointly against the Internet company Google.
(Paris=Yonhap News) Correspondent Song Jin-won = A French media organization claims that Google's AI-based article summarization feature is reducing traffic for media outlets, and that France...
A federation of nearly 300 French newspapers and news portals said Tuesday they had filed a complaint with the country's competition authority over US tech giant Google's new artificial intelligence (AI)-generated search results summaries, fearing the feature would reduce traffic to their websites.
Fearing that they would be deprived of traffic by AI Overviews, they appealed to the Autorité de la concurrence.
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