The UK CMA says publishers in the country will be allowed to opt out of Google's AI Overviews search results, giving Google nine months to implement the changes
Online publishers can choose not to appear in the AI Overviews of Google search results n the UK, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced.
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Discussion
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@eastdakota
Matthew Prince
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Progress! The best thing to encourage healthy AI competition is to require Google to play by the same rules as everyone else and not leverage their monopoly of yesterday to build an insurmountable lead on tomorrow. Great job UK. Who's next? https://www.gov.uk/...
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@cmagovuk
@cmagovuk
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Today we have imposed a new conduct requirement under the UK's digital markets regime. We've secured a fairer deal for UK publishers and improvements to how Google search works in the UK. Find out more: https://www.gov.uk/... [image]
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@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
Neil Brown
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I have not yet read the full detail of this UK gov press release: — > ... publishers will now have effective tools to prevent their content being used to power AI features in search, such as AI Overviews. This will put publishers, like news organisations, in a stronger positio…
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@rtavs
Ross Tavendale
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Woo! New AI reporting is coming to search console. And it's being rolled out in the UK first 🇬🇧 https://blog.google/... Remember there is a couple of things you should be doing to help measure the impact of AI that includes
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@montezumachavez
Luis Montezuma
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Google will now also have to allow publishers to opt-out of allowing their content to be used for the ‘fine-tuning’ of AI models. This provides publishers with confidence that they will have control over the full range of AI use-cases of their content. See https://www.gov.uk/... …
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@akm1410
Ashish K. Mishra
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Important. In a world first, publishers will be able to opt out of their content being used to power AI features in Google search. The UK specific ruling. https://www.gov.uk/...