Google faces a fresh antitrust investigation in Brussels over whether it ripped off copyrighted material to train its artificial intelligence models without properly compensating publishers, the European Commission announced Tuesday.

The European Union’s antitrust cops expressed concern that Google used web publishers’ articles and videos to build its “AI Overviews” search summary feature and “AI Mode” search function without paying them or allowing them to opt out.

The investigation is centered on Google’s handling of articles from news publishers and content creators, as well as videos uploaded to YouTube.

EU Executive Vice-President for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition Teresa Ribera gestures during a press conference on an EU global climate and energy vision at the EU headquart

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