French Media Groups Accuse Google AI Summaries of Cutting Traffic

Google is a big technology company that helps people find things on the internet.

Now, when people search, Google can show a short answer written by a computer, called an AI summary.

News websites write stories and get visitors, which is sometimes called traffic.

Some of Google's short answers use information from those news stories.

Many people read the short answer and do not click on the news website anymore.

That means the news websites get fewer visitors.

News companies in France are not happy about this.

They complained to the government office that watches over fair competition.

They say Google's AI summaries are taking away visitors from their websites.

News companies in other countries are worried about the same thing.