Revealment: Penske Media Corporation is an investor in Vox Media, the mother company Verge.
Penske Media Corporation, publisher Rolling Stone AND The Hollywood ReporterShe became the first main American media company that sued Google about AI summaries. The company claims that the AI review, which often appears at the top of the search results, leave users a little reason to click the source, harming the movement and illegally using the work of his reporters.
While Penske Media is the largest name that should be taken on Google over his AI reviews, this is not the first. The sale of online education of Chegg sued Google in February, just like a group of independent publishers in Europe. News / Media Alliance also said about this function, calling it a “definition of theft” and looking for actions from Doj.
Google spokesman José Castañeda defended the summary before Wall Street Journal Saying: “Thanks to reviews of artificial intelligence, people think that look for more helpful and use more.” But Penske and other publishers say that there is no reason to operate the links given in the search results, as a result they saw Significant decreases in movement and revenues. Penske claims in the lawsuit that revenues from partner links have fallen by more than 1/3 this year and directly attributes to a decline in traffic from Google.
The company also claims that it is in a challenging situation. It can either block indexing of its content by basically removing from all search results, which would further destroy its activities. Or can continue to provide Google training materials for his artificial intelligence: “Adding fuel to a fire that threatens PMC [Penske Media Corporation] The entire publishing company ”, according to the complaint, according to Wall Street Journal.