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Penske Media, owner of several major publications including Rolling Stone, has filed a lawsuit against Google for allegedly using their content without permission to create AI summaries, which they claim harms their business. The lawsuit asserts that Google is leveraging its monopoly power to force publishers into agreements that allow the use of their content beyond search indexing, impacting their traffic and revenue. Google defends its AI features as beneficial for discovering diverse content, while Penske argues that since the introduction of AI Overviews, they have experienced a significant decline in traffic from Google searches.
Source: YAHOO