UK Regulators Let News Publishers Opt Out of Google's AI Search Results

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has introduced new rules allowing news organizations to refuse to have their content used in Google's AI-generated search summaries.

The UK's CMA has enacted new regulations giving news publishers the ability to opt out of having their content scraped and summarized by Google's AI search features, as Japanese outlet Asahi reported. The rules represent one of the most concrete regulatory actions yet against the practice of AI systems using journalism without compensation — what publishers have called "free-riding."

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