According to a document seen by Reuters, the alphabet Google has faced a complaint of European Union’s dissatisfaction with a group of independent publishers, which, according to a document shown by Reuters, allegedly demanded an irreparable damage to them.
Google’s AI reviews are AI-Infiltration Summary that appears above traditional hyperlinks on relevant web pages and shown to users from more than 100 countries. It began to add ads to the AI review last May.
The company is making its biggest prerequisite by integrating AI in search, but the move has raised concerns about some content providers, such as publishers.
On June 30, the Independent Publishers Alliance document has submitted a complaint to the European Commission and has alleged that Google misuses its market power in search online.
The document states that “Google’s core search engine service is misusing web content for Google’s AI review, which has caused significant damage to the publishers, and it has significant losses, including news publishers in the form of traffic, readers and revenue reduction.”
It states that Google has placed its AI review in the upper part of the page of its general search engine results to display its summary, which is developed using publisher content and alleges that Google’s positioning eliminates the original content of publishers.
The complaint states that “Google Search publishers do not have the option of opting out of their content for Google’s large language model training and/or without losing the ability to appear in Google’s general search results page, by crawling for summary,”
The Commission refused to comment.
The UK competition and the Markets Authority confirmed the receipt of the complaint.
Google said it sends billions of clicks to the websites every day.
A Google spokeswoman said, “New AI’s new experiences in search enable people to ask even more questions, creating new opportunities for content and businesses to be discovered.”
The Independent Publishers Alliance’s website says it is a non -profit community that advocates for independent publishers, which is not named.
The movement for an open web, whose members include digital advertisers and publishers, and the British non -profit Foxgloo Legal Community Interest Company, which says it supports justice in the tech world.
He said an interim move was necessary to prevent serious irreparable damage to the competition and ensure access to news.
Google said many claims about traffic from search are often very incomplete and based on sketch data.
“The fact is that sites can get traffic for a number of reasons and lose, including seasonal demands, consumer interests, and regular algorithmic updates for search,” said a Google spokeswoman.
Journalists and publishers face a serious situation, said Rosa Krling, co -executive director of Foxglovo.
He told Reuters, “Free news faces an existential threat: Google’s AI review,” he told Reuters.
“That’s why, with this complaint, Foxgloo and our partners are urging the European Commission to take a stand and allow free journalism to come out,” Karling said.
The three groups have lodged a similar complaint and filed an interim action petition to the UK contest.
These complaints echoed a US case by an American Aid Tech company that said that Google’s AI review was eliminating the demand for original material and damaging the ability to counter publishers, resulting in a decrease in visitors and consumers.
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