by peter
The European Union has opened a formal investigation into Google over allegations that the tech giant is using publicly available online content without proper consent to train its artificial intelligence models.
The probe, led by the EU’s antitrust regulators, will examine whether Google’s practices violate competition rules and the rights of content creators. Concerns have been raised that the company could be exploiting copyrighted material from websites, news outlets, and other digital platforms to improve its AI systems without compensating original creators.
This investigation marks another step in the EU’s broader scrutiny of major tech firms and their AI operations, following similar regulatory actions targeting transparency, copyright, and ethical use of data.
