How Google forced publishers to accept AI scraping as price of appearing in search

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Google considered allowing publishers to opt out of their data being used for AI grounding and still appear in search results but described it as a “hard red line.”

New documents disclosed in the remedies portion of an antitrust trial into Google’s search monopoly in the U.S. reveals the tech giant preferred not to give publishers the option as it was “evolving into a space for monetisation.”

A U.S. judge ruled in August that Google has an illegal search monopoly and new documents have now been published amid a remedies trial held to decide what, if anything, should be done.

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