"With that win behind him, Paxton should consider looking into Google's shifty behavior that is damaging news gathering and giving the company an unfair advantage in the race to dominate AI. The company is forcing publishers to give the company's AI bots access to their content or risk being dropped from Google search entirely, giving Google a significant advantage that could extend the company's monopoly into the realm of AI and further damage the news business' ability to generate original content."
"Google is scraping and using data without paying for it, even as other AI companies are increasingly licensing content from publishers. ( OpenAI has signed a deal with News Corp., Amazon with The New York Times, Perplexity with USA TODAY Inc., and so on.) AI companies are slowly beginning to pay for content because it turns out stealing comes with significant legal risk."
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won a historic $1.375 billion settlement with Google to protect data privacy and security rights. Paxton is urged to investigate Google practices that damage news gathering and give the company an unfair advantage in the race to dominate AI. Google is forcing publishers to allow its AI bots access to their content or risk being dropped from Google Search, creating an advantage that could extend its monopoly and impair publishers' ability to generate original content. Google scrapes and uses data without paying, while other AI firms increasingly license content. Publishers deploy bot-blocking technologies but face coercion due to Google's search dominance.
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