AI Overviews Are Harming Competition, Letting Publishers Opt-Out Won’t Help

The online search market has been remarkably stable for the past two decades , dominated by Google and its ten blue links. That equilibrium, however, looks increasingly unstable. Advances in large language models have produced AI assistants, like ChatGPT, which can return information in accessible prose, generate images, and even converse with users, a new paradigm which threatens Google’s…