India, Feb. 25 -- A US-based edtech company has sued Google stating that its Artificial Intelligence (AI) search engine called AI Overviews is eroding demand for original content and undermining publishers' ability to compete.

The company called Chegg, an online education company which offers textbook rentals, homework help, and tutoring, said that Google is co-opting publishers' content to keep users on its own site which erases financial incentives to publish, according to a report by news agency Reuters.

This will also eventually lead to a "hollowed-out information ecosystem of little use and unworthy of trust," the report quoted the company as stating in its Washington lawsuit.

It even added that AI overviews caused a drop in visit...