Tech giant Google’s AI search leaves content publishers scrambling

When Frank Pine searched Google for a link to a news article two months ago, he encountered paragraphs generated by artificial intelligence (AI) about the topic at the top of his results. To see what he wanted, he had to scroll past them.

That experience annoyed Pine, the executive editor of Media News Group and Tribune Publishing, which own 68 daily newspapers. Now, those paragraphs scare him.