Google's AI Overviews hit by EU antitrust complaint from independent publishers: Reuters
- Independent publishers have filed an EU antitrust complaint against Google's AI Overviews feature, alleging it harms competition and causes traffic and revenue loss by displaying AI-generated summaries before original content.
- Google's AI Overviews summarize web content and appear above regular search results, disadvantaging publishers' original content according to the complaint.
- The complaint also alleges publishers cannot opt out of having their content used for AI training or summaries without losing visibility in Google Search.
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European publishers have beef with Google’s AI Overviews.
A complaint filed by a group of independent publishers alleges that Google abuses its market power by not allowing them to withhold their content from AI Overviews without losing the ability to appear in Search results — a choice that Google believes may impact AI monetization. The group is calling on the EU Commission to put “interim measures” in place to prevent irreparable harm to competition and news access. [Link: Exclusive: Google's AI Ove…
Google's AI Overviews hit by EU antitrust complaint from publishers
Alphabet's Google has been hit by an EU antitrust complaint over its AI Overviews from a group of independent publishers, which has also asked for an interim measure to prevent allegedly irreparable harm to them, according to a document seen
Google's AI Overviews hit by EU antitrust complaint
Alphabet's Google has been hit by an EU antitrust complaint over its AI Overviews from a group of independent publishers, which has also asked for an interim measure to prevent allegedly irreparable harm to them, according to a document seen
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