When Google became the dominant search engine around 2004, not everyone was happy. Everyone from book publishers to record labels blasted the company for helping itself to copyrighted content without paying. The search giant eventually smoothed things over, but now, 21 years later, Google has become the media industry’s villain all over again—this time for gobbling that same content to train its AI tools.
Speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference on Wednesday, People Inc. CEO Neil Vogel—whose firm’s titles include People and Food & Wine—said other big AI firms are paying publishers to use their content, but that Google has so far refused.
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