US senators called for a review of artificial intelligence summarizing tools

A group of Democratic senators has asked the Federal Trade Commission and the US Department of Justice to investigate artificial intelligence tools used to summarize texts and instructions for possible violations of competition laws.

Currently, there are many artificial intelligence-based tools on the Internet that can summarize news and instructions for users and provide their own conclusions from any text. Some chatbots are also equipped with such a feature. While the ability to summarize long texts can be very useful for users, US senators are concerned about its impact on market competition.

Artificial intelligence tools use other people’s content for free

According to TechCrunch, a group of Democratic senators have sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice asking them to review the compliance of artificial intelligence-based text summarization tools with competition laws. According to these senators, artificial intelligence tools are hitting manufacturers and publishers.

Many news organizations have had to retrench and fire their employees in recent years. While companies like Google and Meta use the content produced by these companies for free and do not pay any money in return. Now artificial intelligence tools are also using the publishers’ content for free, along with the tech giants. This can cause an irreparable blow to the economy of the news media.

According to US senators, a number of large companies are controlling the market to monetize original content through advertising, and these companies are changing the market in their favor. Users who do not agree to make their content available for use by artificial intelligence will be excluded from the market by these companies.

In their letter, the senators also asked the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice to investigate whether these new practices are a form of monopolistic behavior or a method of unfair competition in violation of antitrust laws.