Read the statement from AI Now’s Associate Director, Kate Brennan, below:
In failing to grapple with the tremendous advantages Google holds in the generative AI market due to its search engine monopoly, yesterday’s decision leaves the gates open for Google to carry over its search monopoly into AI. Most concerningly, the court presents generative AI as a magic solution for search competition without seriously examining the connections between Google’s search dominance and its control of AI across the entire AI stack—paving the way for history to repeat itself.
We do not have to gaze into a crystal ball, as Judge Mehta suggests, to know what will happen next: Google will continue to enjoy the fruits of its search monopoly to secure its success in the genAI market—including trillions of real-time search queries to train its models, unparalleled access to consumers across dozens of products to push AI onto, and billions of dollars in revenue to invest in risky capital investments.
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