"Penske Media Corporation, the publisher of Rolling Stone and The Hollywood Reporter, has become the first major American media company to sue Google over its AI summaries. The company claims that the AI Overviews that often appear at the top of search results leave users with little reason to click through to the source, hurting traffic and illegally benefitting from the work of its reporters."
"Google spokesperson José Castañeda defended the summaries to the Wall Street Journal saying, "with AI Overviews, people find search more helpful and use it more." But Penske and other publishers say there is little reason to follow the links provided in search results and, as a result, they have seen significant drops in traffic and revenue. Penske claims in the suit that revenue from affiliate links is down by over 1/3 this year, and it attributes that directly to a drop in traffic from Google."
Penske Media Corporation sued Google claiming AI Overviews that appear at the top of search results leave users little reason to click through, harming traffic and improperly benefiting from reporters' work. The complaint alleges affiliate-link revenue is down by over one-third this year due to reduced referrals from Google. Publishers face a stark choice: block Google indexing and lose search visibility, or allow content to be used to train AI models. Other plaintiffs include Chegg, European independent publishers, Encyclopedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster, and News Corp, while Google maintains that AI Overviews make search more helpful.
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