ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENTA federation representing nearly 300 French newspapers announced on Tuesday that it has filed a complaint with the Competition Authority over Google's new AI-generated search result summaries. France's audiovisual and digital regulator, Arcom, has "estimated the loss of traffic attributable to AI-generated summaries at between 33% and 38%", the APIG points out. The alliance says Google introduced these new AI-generated summaries without its consent, which it argues amounts to a breach of the 2022 agreement. The Competition Authority had already fined Google 250 million euros (290 million dollars) in 2024 for failing to comply with certain provisions of that agreement. Critics argue that AI summaries make matters worse by driving down web traffic to news articles, with many users no longer clicking through to the original source of the information.