The US Publishers’ Union has called Google’s new AI mode in the search engine (AI Mode) as coe theft, saying that Google is using and using coe without returning income and traffic. Iernal documes show that Google has several options to withdraw publishers from artificial ielligence, but ultimately decided not to execute any.
Publishers’ criticism of Google’s artificial ielligence mode
In a stateme published, the news union “News/Media Alliance” has accused Google for reducing the traffic and income of publishers that really produce coe, with rece changes to search and use of artificial ielligence, according to a report by the 9to5Google report. This coe is the result of the research, field report, and dedicated media writing, unlike retireme or user products.
The stateme is stated:
“The links were the last valuable search rating to give traffic and income publishers. Google collects this coe without the conse of publishers and without any benefit to them, and in its artificial ielligence -based products; This is exactly theft. “The Solutions of the Ministry of Justice should stop the complete domination of a company on the Iernet.”
These statemes have been published at the same time with the disclosure of iernal documes in the couer -court court; Documes that show that publishers have been able to withdraw their coe in the AI Overviews section or SGE, but have finally decided not to make any of these options.
Google had examined options such as maiaining the curre status of publishers’ corol and complete separation of artificial ielligence tools from the search section, but the complete separation of the section was red and never considered it.
Limit of exit from Google Artificial Ielligence mode
Now, publishers, if they wa to use their coe in artificial ielligence mode, must completely withdraw the search engine, which is virtually implemeed. Currely, publishers can only reduce the use of their coe in Google’s artificial ielligence by disabling their coe in parts such as short text pieces or “Snippets”, but this method has little effect; Because of the prevalence of artificial ielligence -based responses, these traditional texts are less displayed.
Google told Bloomberg in response to the note.
“Publishers have always corolled how their coe is preseed to Google, and artificial ielligence models have been searched for years to show off related sites and traffic. “These documes are an initial list of options in the developing space and does not show the final decision.”
Google probably chose this route because if publishers could withdraw from the search results without completely excluding their coe in artificial ielligence tools, many websites would have chosen this option and virtually the new Google tools would lose their performance. The decision has been made to reinforce the final product, but in practice, it causes serious damage to publishers.
The result of this trend is the severe weakening of the publishing industry, either on the verge of destruction or producing poor, low -cost coe to be seen merely. This is a big problem that Google has to deal with; Because it lowers the total quality of the Iernet.
