In a letter to the agencies, the senators explained their position that the latest AI features are hitting creators and publishers while they’re down. As journalistic outlets experience unprecedented consolidation and layoffs, “dominant online platforms, such as Google and Meta, generate billions of dollars per year in advertising revenue from news and other original content created by others. New generative AI features threaten to exacerbate these problems.”
Source: Senate leaders ask FTC to investigate AI content summaries as anti-competitive