BRUSSELS — The European Fee has opened an antitrust investigation into whether or not Google breached EU competitors guidelines through the use of the content material of net publishers, in addition to video uploaded to YouTube, for synthetic intelligence functions.
The investigation will study whether or not Google is distorting competitors by imposing unfair phrases and circumstances on publishers and content material creators, or by granting itself privileged entry to such content material, thus putting rival AI fashions at a drawback, the Fee mentioned on Tuesday.
In an announcement, the EU govt mentioned it was involved that Google could have used the content material of net publishers to supply generative AI-powered companies on its search outcomes pages with out applicable compensation to publishers, and with out providing them the likelihood to refuse such use of their content material.
