Rolling Stone, Penske owner of the billboard sues Google over AI reviews

* First major US publisher to challenge Google’s AI reviews in court * Penke says Google binds the visibility of using its content in AI reviews * Penske says that affiliate revenue by more than a third of Peak * Google argues that AI review users help users, Werf and Google’s site. followed up. Summaries use his journalism without permission and reduce traffic to its websites. The lawsuit by Penske Media in the Federal Court in Washington, DC, is the first time a major American publisher has taken Google in the alphabet in court over the AI-generated summaries that now appear above the search results. News organizations have said for months that the new features, including Google’s “AI reviews”, Siphon traffic away from their websites, which erode advertising and subscription income. Penske, a family-owned media lummary led by Jay Penske and whose content attracts 120 million online visitors per month, said Google contains only publishers in its search results if they can also use their articles in AI summaries. Without the leverage, Google Publishers will have to pay for the right to republish their work or use it to train its AI systems, the company said in the lawsuit. It added that Google could impose such conditions due to search domination, which indicates that the federal court found last year that the technical giant has an almost 90% share of the US search market. “We have a responsibility to proactively fight for the future of digital media and preserve its integrity – which is all threatened by Google’s current actions,” Penke said. It is alleged that about 20% of the Google searches linking to its websites now show AI reviews, a share he expects to rise, adding that its affiliate income fell by more than a third by the end of 2024 when the search traffic decreased. The online education company Chegg also sued Google in February with the claim that the AI-generated review of the search giant weakens the demand for original content and undermines the ability of the publishers to compete. In response to the lawsuit of Penke, Google said on Saturday that AI reviews offer a better experience to users and send traffic to a greater variety of websites. “With AI reviews, people find searches more useful and use it more, creating new opportunities for content to be discovered. We will defend against these meritless claims.” Google spokesman Jose Castaneda said. A judge handed the company a rare antitrust victory earlier this month by deciding that he did not have to sell his Chrome browser as part of the attempts to seek competition. The move disappointed some publishers and industry bodies, including the News/Media Alliance, who said the decision left publishers without the ability to choose from AI reviews. “All the elements negotiated with every other AI business do not apply to Google because they have the market power not to participate in those healthy practices,” Danielle Coffey, CEO of The News/Media Alliance, a trade group representing more than 2200 US-based publishers, told Reuters on Friday. “If you have the massive scale and market power that Google has, you are not obliged to stick to the same norms. That’s the problem.” Coffey referred to AI license presentation firms such as Chatgpt-Maker Openai, such as News Corp, Financial Times and the Atlantic, signed. Google, whose Gemini Chatbot competes with chatgpt, was slower to sign such offers. (Reporting by Aditya Soni, additional repetition by Rhea Rose Abraham and Nilutpal Timsina in Bengaluru editing by Shri Navaratnam)