{"id":306923,"date":"2025-12-09T12:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/306923\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T12:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:44:07","slug":"eu-investigates-google-over-ai-generated-summaries-in-search-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/306923\/","title":{"rendered":"EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in search results"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Europeans deserve to benefit from the latest technologies and we will continue to work closely with the news and creative industries as they transition to the AI era,” they said.<\/p>\n

The EU’s investigation will also cover Google’s AI Mode, which gives people an answer in a conversational style with some links to other pages.<\/p>\n

It is in addition to the tech giant’s existing search platform – providing an experience similar to its rivals such as ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

Google’s introduction of its AI Overview summaries was met with concerns it could result in fewer visitors to websites<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Without people clicking on web pages, sites generate less money from advertising.<\/p>\n

The Daily Mail previously claimed the number of people who clicked its links from Google search results fell by around 50% since Google introduced its AI Overview feature.<\/p>\n

The Commission said it was concerned both web publishers and YouTube video creators were not being compensated or given the opportunity to opt-out of their content being used to train the company’s AI models.<\/p>\n

Ed Newton-Rex from AI fairness campaigners Fairly Trained said it was “career suicide” for people to not publish their work on YouTube or online.<\/p>\n

He told the BBC Google “essentially makes it a condition” of online publishing that the firm can “use your work to build AI that competes with you”.<\/p>\n

“This investigation could not come at a more critical time for creators around the world,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Europeans deserve to benefit from the latest technologies and we will continue to work closely with the news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-306923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}