Google defends AI search summaries in Rolling Stone publisher’s lawsuit

Google has asked a federal judge to dismiss a ‍lawsuit by the publisher of Rolling ​Stone, Billboard and Variety magazines that accuses the tech giant of ⁠eroding traffic to media companies’ websites by adding AI-generated summaries to search results.

In a on Monday in Washington’s federal district court, Google and its parent Alphabet called Penske Media Corp’s (PMC) lawsuit “legally defective in every way.”

Penske ‌sued last year, ‌claiming Google broke antitrust law by forcing publishers to allow AI overviews of their content if they want ‌to remain indexed in Google search. Online education company Chegg is separately suing Google over its AI overviews.