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Google'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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