Google got caught saying the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ and publishers are up in arms about its ‘AI content theft’

via fortune.com

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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 a recent legal filing, Google admitted that “the open web is already in rapid decline”—a […]

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