When Google became the dominant search engine around 2004, not everyone was happy. Everyone from book publishers to music studios blasted the company for helping itself to copyrighted content without paying. The search giant eventually smoothed things over but now, twenty 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 Fortune’s 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 for publishers to use the content they create, but that Google has so far refused.

“Some AI shops are good actors. Open AI is a good guy,” said Vogel. “The worst guy is Google.”

Vogel made his comments duri

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