AI Overview Feature Impact on Journalism Ethics

Google's new AI Overview feature, designed to answer online queries, raised concerns about the future of journalism when it generated a summary that closely mirrored an author's original work, bypassing proper attribution. Despite Google's claim that the AI feature merely offers conceptual matches and aims to help users find more information, the author noted that it buried attribution and potentially reduced the incentive for users to click through to the source material. Legal experts expressed skepticism about potential copyright claims related to such AI-generated content, emphasizing the difficulty in proving infringement for fact-based writings.