The European Union has launched an antitrust investigation into whether Google is violating competition rules with AI-generated summaries in its search results.

In a statement on Tuesday, the European Commission said it would examine whether Google is unfairly rehashing the content of web publishers and YouTube creators in AI-generated search results. Google said the investigation risked “stifling innovation.”

“The Commission will investigate to what extent the generation of AI Overviews and AI Mode by Google is based on web publishers’ content without appropriate compensation for that, and without the possibility for publishers to refuse without losing access to Google Search,” the European Commission said. “Indeed, many publishers depend on Google Search for user traffic, and they do

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