Google Accused Of Being A Bad Actor Over AI Content

Google faces backlash as publishers accuse it of being a bad actor for using their content to fuel AI tools without fair returns.
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Google Accused Of Being A Bad Actor Over AI Content
Why Google Faces Accusations From Publishers Google has recently been accused of being a bad actor in how it uses publisher content to power its AI tools. The concern centers on the company’s use of a single crawler for both search indexing and AI training. While search once delivered most of the traffic to publishers, leaders in the industry now claim Google’s AI features are reducing referrals while still extracting value from their work. This shift has sparked a growing debate about fairness, copyright, and the balance of power between publishers and tech giants. Image Credits:Fortune Brainstorm Tech Google’s AI Crawling Practices Under Fire Neil Vogel, CEO of People Inc., one of the largest digital and print publishers in the U.S., criticized Google for using the same crawler to serve both search results and AI products. In his view, the company is effectively taking publisher content to fuel its AI tools without offering fair compensation. Vogel explained that while Google Search onc…