US EditionGoogle's AI Overviews hit by EU antitrust complaint from independent publishers: Reuters
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, JUL 4 – Independent publishers claim Google's AI summaries cause traffic drops over 34%, seek EU intervention to protect journalism and impose interim measures to prevent further harm.
- 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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A group of independent publishers complained against Google to the European Commission to challenge competition from the abstracts written by IA posted by the search engine.
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