Do AI overviews hurt the websites they summarize?
Yes. AI overviews frequently summarize a publisher's reporting directly in the search results, satisfying the user's query without sending them to the source. That shrinks click-through traffic for the independent sites and journalists whose work trained and continues to feed the underlying models.
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