PurchaseWithPurpose

That's not what they're asking permission for. They want unlimited access to copyrighted information for the purposes of training their AI models, not just using the developed models to output article summaries.

Also, on your thing, regardless of whether or not they provide a link to the original source(s), summarizing others work to hijack their ad revenue is absolutely unethical if you think compensating people for their work is ethical and inevitably leads to the decline in actual first-party reporting and real journalism.

The only ones who benefit long-term from an AI-summary-fueled media landscape are those who have a direct profit motive to produce content, aka corporations and government propaganda.

If independent media fails, your Google news feed will just become slopped up versions of coporate press releases and propaganda echo chambers.

Absolute best case scenario in this unregulated hellscape is Google figures out a way to pay the first party reporting groups to keep "independent" journalism alive, but even that basically makes all "independent" media totally dependent on Google revenue streams (not to mention it sounds a lot like "paying to access copyrighted content", the exact thing they're lobbying against).

Finally, Google has made it clear that though they want total ability to modify news coverage as they see fit, they want 0 liability for those modifications. When their AI slops out hallucinations with real world consequences, they want zero responsibility, which is also "unethical".