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Google’s AI Overview Search Results Copied My Original Work
Google’s AI feature bumped my article down on the results page, but the new AI Overview at the top still referenced it. What gives?
During my initial tests of Google’s new search experience, the featured snippet with the article still appeared for relevant queries, but it was pushed beneath the AI Overview answer that pulled from my reporting and inserted aspects of it into a 10-item bulleted list. “This information is not a replacement for web content, but designed to help people get a sense of what's out there and click to learn more.” Looking at the word choice and overall structure of the AI Overview in question, I disagree with Google’s characterization that the result may be just a “conceptual match” of my writing. Also, even if Google developers did not intend for this feature to be a replacement of the original work, AI Overviews provide direct answers to questions in a manner that buries attribution and reduces the incentive for users to click through to the source material.
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