"AI Overviews are the AI-generated summaries that appear at the very top of Google's search engine results pages. These AI summaries pull from websites and other third-party sources and display the summaries right on Google's own search pages. News organizations have reported that these AI Overviews have resulted in a loss of traffic, which in turn has hurt advertising and subscription revenue."
""As a leading global publisher, we have a duty to protect PMC's best-in-class journalists and award-winning journalism as a source of truth," PMC's founder, chairman, and CEO Jay Penske said in a statement provided to multiple outlets. "Furthermore, we have a responsibility to proactively fight for the future of digital media and preserve its integrity - all of which is threatened by Google's current actions.""
Penske Media Corporation filed a federal lawsuit in Washington, D.C., alleging Google used PMC content without consent in its AI Overviews feature. PMC claims AI Overviews appear on roughly 20 percent of search results linking to its publications and have caused measurable declines in traffic, advertising, and subscription revenue. PMC asserts that publishers are forced into inclusion because they depend on Google's crawlers for indexing and traffic. Jay Penske emphasized a duty to protect journalists and digital media integrity. Google responded that AI Overviews make Search more helpful and create discovery opportunities and said it will defend itself.
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