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Rolling Stone Publisher Sues Google Over AI Overview Summaries
How about you summarize this lawsuit.
Penske Media Corporation, the parent company of Rolling Stone and The Hollywood Reporter, sued Google on Friday over allegations that the search giant has used its work without permission to generate summaries and ultimately reduced traffic to its publications. Penske’s argument is pretty simple: by showing an AI-generated summary of an article at the top of the page via Google’s AI Overview panel, users have little reason to click through to read the full article, resulting in dwindling traffic finding its way to the publisher’s platforms, which it needs in order to monetize its content, either through ads or subscriptions. Notably, Penske claims that in recent years, Google has basically given publishers no choice but to give up access to its content.
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