Google says no to training AI on its search results

lastmansurfing
Dec 29, 2025
1 min read

Google is suing SerpApi, a company that helps train AI models by scraping data from search engines.

Google is suing SerpApi, a web-scraping company that provides its customers with an API that mimics human searching, the latest salvo in the battle over access to data for training and operating AI large language models.

Many of the large language models powering AI services today were trained on data scraped from websites, often without the knowledge or permission of the sites’ owners. Now, copyright holders are fighting back, suing AI companies or their suppliers, and striking licensing deals worth millions or even billions of dollars.