As Google pushes deeper into AI, publishers see fresh challenges

FILE PHOTO: A woman passes the logo from the web search engine provider Google during the digital society festival 're:publica', at the Arena Berlin in Berlin, Germany June 9, 2022. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse//File Photo

NEW YORK (Reuters) -You may never have to read another news story in your life, if you have artificial intelligence that can digest all the web’s information and serve up a summary on demand.

That’s the stuff of nightmares for media barons as Google and others experiment with what's called generative AI, which creates new content drawing from past data.