Google’s AI hit independent publishers with an European Union’s antitrust complaint
According to the complaint, Google’s AI overview top search results use publishers, allegedly ignoring the original sources.
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In short
- Complaint of the European Union’s antitrust filed by independent publishers against Google’s AI overview
- AI overview publisher produces the summary using the ingredients, shown the search result
- Publishers accused of loss of traffic, reader and revenue due to Google’s practices
According to a document viewed by Reuters, Google of the alphabet has been killed by a group of independent publishers on its AI observation of an European Union’s antitrust, which has also sought an interim measures.
Google’s AI overview is AI-borne summary that appears for relevant webpages above traditional hyperlinks and shown to users in more than 100 countries. It started adding advertisements to the AI overview last May.
The company is making its greatest condition by integrating AI in search, but the move has given rise to concerns from some material providers such as publishers.
Independent Publishers Alliance Documents, on 30 June, set a complaint to the European Commission and alleges that Google misuses its market power in online search.
“Google’s core search engine service is misusing the web content for Google’s AI overview in Google Search, including news publishers, including traffic, readers and revenue loss, and continues,” the document said.
It stated that Google holds its AI interview to display its own summons at the top of its general search engine result page that generates using the publisher content and alleges that Google’s status damage the original content of the publishers.
“Publishers using Google Search have no option to get out of their content to get out of their content, without losing their capacity in Google’s AI large language model training and/or google’s general search result page,” said the complaint said.
The Commission refused to comment.
The UK competition and the market authority confirmed the receipt of the complaint.
Google said that it sends billions of clicks on websites every day.
“New AI experiences in search search for people to ask even more questions, which creates new opportunities for materials and businesses,” said a Google spokesman.
The website of Independent Publishers Alliance says it is a non -profit community who is advocating independent publishers, which is not named.
The movement for an open web, whose members include digital advertisers and publishers, and British non-profit Foxglove Legal Community Interest Company, who say it advocates fairness in the technical world, also signs for complaints.
He said that an interim measure was necessary to prevent severe irreparable losses for competition and to ensure access to news.
Google said that many claims about traffic from search are often based on highly incomplete and diagonally data.
The Google spokesperson said, “The reality is that the sites can get traffic for several reasons and lose, including seasonal demands, users’ interests and regular algorithm updates for search.”
Foxglov co-executive director Roja Carling said that journalists and publishers have to face a serious situation.
“Independent news faces an existential threat: Google’s AI Overview,” he told Reuters.
“This is why with this complaint, Foxglov and our partner are urged to take a stand and allow independent journalism to exit a stand, along with other regulators around the world,” Karling said.
The three groups have filed a request for an interim measure for a uniform complaint and an interim measure for the UK Competition Authority.
Complaints echoed an American case by an American Edtech company, stating that Google’s AI overviews are reducing the demand for original content and reducing publishers’ ability to compete, resulting in a decline in visitors and customers.