Ohio’s Bid to Regulate Google Faces State Appeals Court Pushback

Two Ohio appeals court judges expressed skepticism Tuesday that the state could regulate Google like a public utility, with the panel’s head judge contemplating how such a ruling could affect the artificial intelligence industry.

Ohio Court of Appeals, Fifth District Presiding Judge Andrew J. King (R) noted to a lawyer for Attorney General Dave Yost (R) that AI platforms such as ChatGPT and Gemini spit out answers to user queries, and wondered whether a ruling in Yost’s favor could open those companies up to regulation.

“It’s making those type of content decisions similarly, it seems to me, that the search ...