AI-powered search options like ChatGPT would have been released years ago had Google not had a stranglehold on internet search, according to Kenneth Dintzer, the DOJ’s lead lawyer in the U.S. government’s antitrust case against the Alphabet subsidiary. (Bloomberg)
Talking point: Google’s slow entry into AI-enabled search was a product of the company’s wariness around the technology. In 2021, Google refrained from releasing an AI chatbot developed by two of its researchers, saying the product didn’t meet its safety and fairness standards. Yet the company has committed to adding AI to its search function since the February release of Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered search engine. The antitrust trial is currently scheduled to begin in September.