Innovations Like ChatGPT Were Delayed Due To Google’s Monopoly: US Justice Dept

The US Justice Department on Thursday told federal court that ChatGPT and similar technological innovations were delayed and could have come to the fore had it not been for Google’s search monopoly.

Justice Departmnet’s Kenneth Dintzer said that days after Microsoft announced the integration of OpenAI’s AI chat technology with Bing search engine, Google announced its own conversation AO product.

“What has been going on for the past 12 years is Google has been maintaining its monopoly. Would we have seen ChatGPT six years earlier? Would we see five other competitors competing for search? Those are questions none of us can answer,” said Dintzer, Justice Department’s lead lawyer in its antitrust case against Google.

Meanwhile, the search giant has asked federal court to throw out two antitrust cases brought by the Justice Department and state attorneys general before a scheduled trial in September. Bloomberg reports that the Justice Department and a group of states separately sued in 2020, alleging that Google’s deals to ensure its search engine is preloaded on web browsers and mobile devices violate antitrust laws.

The Bloomberg report mentioned that Google’s attorney John Schmidtlein acknowledged that the agreements with Apple Inc. and smartphone manufacturers to be the default search engine give the company “an advantage,” but denied violation of antitrust laws.

“There’s absolutely an advantage, but it’s not insurmountable,” Schmidtlein said.