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A group known as the Independent Publishers Alliance has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission regarding Google’s AI Overviews. The complaint accuses Google of misusing web content for its AI Overviews in Google Search, which has reportedly caused significant harm to publishers, including traffic, readership, and revenue loss. Publishers claim they have no option to opt-out without disappearing from Google search results entirely. Google’s AI-generated summaries, which have been added to the top of some web search results for over a year, are said to cause major traffic declines for news publishers. Google contends that the new AI experiences in Search create new opportunities for content and businesses to be discovered, arguing that claims about web traffic are often based on incomplete data.