Brussels – EU-Google The tug of war continues. The European Commission has launched an investigation into Suspected violation of competition rules related to Use of online content for artificial intelligence purposes. The EU is concerned about Teresa RiveraThe executive vice president for competition transition briefly explains that the web giant “may have violated EU competition rules by imposing unfair terms and conditions on publishers and content creators, putting rival AI model developers at a disadvantage.”
EU executives also suspect that videos and other content uploaded to YouTube were used to train Google's generative artificial intelligence models, without creators being adequately compensated or offered the opportunity to opt out of such use of their content. Content creators who upload videos to YouTube are obligated to give Google permission to use their data for a variety of purposes, including training generative artificial intelligence models. According to the Commission's service, Google does not pay YouTube content creators for their content, nor does it allow content creators to upload content to YouTube without allowing Google to use their data.
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