News organisations are forced to accept Google AI crawlers, says FT policy chief

News sites don’t have a “genuine choice” about whether to block Google AI crawlers from scraping their content, a publisher has warned. Matt Rogerson, director of global public policy and platform strategy at the FT and former Guardian Media Group director of public policy, argued that Google’s “social contract” with publishers – through which it provided value to the industry by sending traffic to their sites – has been broken.

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