BRUSSELS (CN) — European regulators launched an antitrust investigation into Google on Tuesday over accusations the tech giant is illegally strip-mining content from websites and YouTube videos to build its artificial intelligence tools without paying creators or giving them any way to refuse.
The European Commission — the EU’s executive body — is investigating whether Google violated EU competition rules by strong-arming publishers and content creators while reserving privileged access to their work for itself — potentially kneecapping rival AI developers in the process. The probe targets Google’s AI-powered search features that generate summaries using publisher content, and YouTube’s terms that require creators to let Google train AI models on their videos without compensation.
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