Google drew criticisms from media at WIRED’s AI Power Summit in New York on Monday September 15. Markham C. Erickson, VP of government affairs and public policy at Google, did a valiant effort defending their practice.
The media companies complain that the AI Overviews decrease the traffic to their websites by extracting information so people don’t have to go the sources.
Neil Vogel, the CEO of People Inc., also criticized Google for websites having to allow its crawler to be a part of traditional search, which then exposes their content to AI Overviews (and presumably AI Mode).
Related Stories
One response to “Google AI overviews draws criticism for drop in traffic and having to allow Google crawler to be part of traditional search”
Watch the entire webinar at link below. It’s revealing. Lots of salient quotes like, “if AI training is deemed fair use then nobody will renew the current licensing deals”
https://webinartv.us/watch/81d4e4dbd5377a22ea9607b681f250d451d955af