Google faces EU antitrust grievance over AI Overviews

A gaggle referred to as the Unbiased Publishers Alliance has filed an antitrust grievance with the European Fee over Google’s AI Overviews, in accordance with Reuters.

The grievance accuses Google of “misusing internet content material for Google’s AI Overviews in Google Search, which have precipitated, and proceed to trigger, important hurt to publishers, together with information publishers within the type of visitors, readership and income loss.”

It additionally says that except they’re prepared to vanish from Google search outcomes completely, publishers “wouldn’t have the choice to decide out” of their materials being utilized in AI summaries.

It’s been somewhat over a yr since Google started including AI-generated summaries on the prime of some internet search outcomes, and regardless of some early solutions that have been spectacularly off-base, the characteristic continues to develop, to the purpose the place it’s reportedly inflicting main visitors declines for information publishers.

Google informed Reuters that “new AI experiences in Search allow folks to ask much more questions, which creates new alternatives for content material and companies to be found.” The corporate additionally argued that claims about internet visitors are sometimes primarily based on incomplete knowledge, and that “websites can acquire and lose visitors for a wide range of causes.”