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Newsflash: The European Commission has opened an antitrust probe into whether Google is breaching EU competition rules by using online content from web publishers and its YouTube service for artificial intelligence purposes.
The EC says:
The investigation will notably examine whether Google is distorting competition by imposing unfair terms and conditions on publishers and content creators, or by granting itself privileged access to such content, thereby placing developers of rival AI models at a disadvantage.
The Commission is concerned that Google has used web publishers’ content without permission or compensation, both to create AI-powered services and to train its AI models.
