Briefing Wraps On Effort To Dismiss News Publishers’ Antitrust AI Claims

( October 28, 2024, 1:25 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The use of news articles for training artificial intelligence and targeted search results generated by AI do not give the publishers of newspapers an antitrust injury because the news market differs from the online search market, Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. argue in an Oct. 25 reply brief in support of their motion to dismiss.  But in an opposition brief, the publishers say the case is a simple one: through its huge market share in online searches, Google can force actual news outlets to provide content for AI training free of charge and then repackage the data, acting as a de facto news publisher....