Google's new crackdown on news site traffic

Google's decisions regarding artificial intelligence continue to be criticized. Previously, when someone typed in a topic into the search engine, the first results that appeared were AI summaries. This led to losses for platforms that primarily relied on clicks and views.
This loss experienced by news platforms caused independent journalism organizations to be particularly affected.
While new regulations are pending, news items on Google Discover are now automatically summarized by artificial intelligence. This means you can now read summaries of news without logging into any website. However, this is also seen as the beginning of a rather challenging period for journalism.
In this system, Google's AI draws on various sources to generate summaries. This new summary, available on both iOS and Android, has been welcomed by users but frowned upon by news producers.
On the other hand, it is also specifically stated that these summaries are created by artificial intelligence and may contain errors.
While the news summarization engine is initially available in the US, the feature is expected to be rolled out globally soon.
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