Chegg's educational technological company has Judging Google in the federal court, claiming that his “reviews of AI”, which, in the visible, are ahead of the search results, damaged its traffic and income. According to Chegg, in order to be included in the results of Google’s search, he must “provide content that Google reprints without permission to generated AI answers that unfairly compete for users on the Internet in violation of the antimonopoly laws of the United States.”
Previously, publishers like it New York Times have sue From the copyright violation, accusing them of teaching large language models (LLMS) on the IP material without permission. Nevertheless, Chegg uses a different approach, instead blaming Google of abuse of its monopoly position to force companies to supply materials for its “reviews of artificial intelligence” on its search page. The inability to do this, it is said that this means that it can be effectively excluded from the search for Google.
Chegg included a screenshot of the Google AI review, which receives detailed information from the CheGG website without attribution, although the page under consideration appears below in the search results.
Google said CNBC that he would protect himself from the lawsuit. “Every day, Google sends billions of clicks to sites on the Internet, and AI reviews send traffic to a greater variety of sites,” the representative said.
The use of Google by his monopoly power in this way “draws up the form of an illegal mutual transaction that damages competition in violation of the Sherman law,” Chegg said, citing the decision of the federal judge since last year Google is a monopolist in searchThe technological company said the field that these practices especially affect it, because “the breadth, depth, quality and volume of the Chegg educational content are of great value for the use of artificial intelligence.”
Chegg is the last in the long list of companies presented by Google regarding the alleged illegal assignment of IP content, although, as already mentioned, the use of Sherman's act is a new approach. As of January 2025, 38 court lawsuits associated with AI were filed in the United States website Tracking claims – still with mixed results.
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