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Google got caught saying the open web is in ‘rapid decline,’ and publishers are up in arms about its AI ‘content theft’ | Fortune
Google says the web is thriving and it’s in “rapid decline,” as publishers accuse it of “theft” and being a “bad actor.” So which is it?
Google is under intense scrutiny for making contradictory statements about the health of the open web, even as publishers and industry critics are seeing issues with how it siphons content for its AI-powered services, arguably accelerating the same process. In August, the CEO of WalletHub, a major personal finance site, blocked 40,000 pages from Google’s indexing, accusing the tech giant of allowing AI-powered plagiarism and content theft. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, who was also on the panel, said AI firms‘ “answer engines” are making it difficult for other websites to drive traffic, and it’s a change from Google’s previous status as a “great patron” to the internet, when it ingested web-page content and linked out to relevant pages in response to search queries.
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