Google sued over AI feature that CEO Sundar Pichai said helps Search grow

Google is facing a legal challenge from educational technology company Chegg, which claims that the search engine’s artificial intelligence (AI) feature – AI Overviews – is eroding demand for original content and hindering publishers’ ability to compete. AI Overviews are AI-generated summaries of search results that appear in Google Search.

According to a report by news agency Reuters, a lawsuit was filed in Washington, DC, in which Chegg asserted that Google is co-opting publishers’ content to keep users on its own site, effectively eliminating the financial incentives that drive content creation.