UK media groups given power to opt out of Google AI search summaries

Watchdog says ‘publishers will now have effective tools to prevent content being used to power AI features in search’

Publishers will be able to opt out of their content being used to train Google’s AI models and power its search summaries, the UK competition watchdog has announced as it imposes new conduct requirements on search services.

“Publishers will now have effective tools to prevent their content being used to power AI features in search, such as AI Overviews,” the Competition and Markets Authority said.