A conglomerate of US media feels on the bench to Google for the “AI Overviews”

The so -called “ai overViews”, the summaries generated with AI that Google summons at the top of its results pages, have ended up becoming omnipresent in the most famous search engine in the world. Howeverthese summaries are also inflicting a lot of damage to the mediawhose clicks have been collapsed ostensibly from the frank entry of the “Ai Overviews” of Google.

For this reason, the American media conglomerate Brush mediawhich edits important titles such as Rolling Stone y The Hollywood Reporter, He has made the determination to sue Google for abusing his monopoly in searches with the “AI Overviews” function.

In your demand (whose accusations Google rejects sharply) Penske Media argues that the summaries generated with AI of the celebrated search engine often respond to user’s queries quite precisely. And in this sense, the user no longer has the need to visit the Google websites primarily extracts the information when generating the “AI Overviews”.

The fact that the Internet user should necessarily click on these websites is potentially lethal for the mediawhich depend on advertising to offer contents completely free to the Internet user and whose advertising income is inevitably diminished if visits are reduced.

Penske Media accuses Google of wanting to be the first and only destination of the user on the Internet

In his demand Penske Media emphasizes that, relying on his “AI Overviews”, Google aspires to become the first and only destination of the Internet into the network of networks to stop being a kind of “hub” that redirects the Internet user to other web pages.

According to Penske Media, Google’s plans are only and exclusively possible because Mountain View has the monopoly in searches. After all, when the “publishers” accept that Google spiders track their web pages, such spiders also reserve the right to use the content hosted on those websites to generate content with AI. And this constitutes a clear violation of competence norms in force in the United StatesS, Subraya Penske Media.

The matrix of Rolling Stone y The Hollywood ReporteR has consigned its lawsuit in the same Washington court that last year ruled that Google incurred monopolistic practices in the field of searches.

A Google spokesman has responded to Penske Media’s demand arguing that The search results accompanied by “ai overViews” are more useful for the user and ultimately move to look for more internet content. The American multinational also insists that it redirects billions of visits to other web pages every day.

Los «AI Overviews»who left the shell last year, They are Google’s response to the “players” (increasingly numerous) that provide direct answers to the user’s questions with the help of AI. Even when many argue that the “AI Overviews” also harm the prosperous advertising business of Google, the truth is that the company’s income continues to grow at excellent pace.