By Inti LandauroPARIS, Aug 11 (Reuters) - A French press association has asked the country's competition watchdog to ‌take action against Google's artificial intelligence-generated article summaries, which ‌the trade group says deprive newspapers and magazines of readers. The Alliance of General Information Press, which represents French newspapers and magazines, opposes ⁠the recent rollout of AI-generated article summaries by Google without consultation, the alliance said in a statement. Four years ​ago the competition watchdog ‌forced Alphabet's Google to pay for using French press articles on its platforms, including its search engines. Google was fined €500 million ($576.8 million) after the copyright dispute. "The fact that ​AI is built upon media content means one single thing: this information has considerable value," Marc Feuillee, the ​alliance's president, said ‌in the statement.