It potentially chokes off the original creators of the content. The feature, AI Overviews, felt like another step toward generative AI replacing 'the publications that they have cannibalized,' he added.
Publishers could also try to protect their content from Google by forbidding its web crawler from sharing any content snippets from their sites. But then their links would show up without any description, making people less likely to click.
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