Media companies have filed so many lawsuits against AI companies over the past two years that the act has become routine. When I report on these in The Media Copilot newsletter, they’re often digest items, adding to the pile of publishers who want fair compensation for the content AI labs have ingested to create large language models (LLMs). There are so many that elaborate infographics are required to keep track of them all.

Penske Media’s copyright lawsuit, however, is anything but typical, and that’s because of its choice of target. The Rolling Stone publisher is going after Google.

Google is in many ways the big fish in the AI world. It’s true that more people use OpenAI’s ChatGPT than they do Google Gemini, but Google has the distinction of being both a frontier AI lab and the curre

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