Turkey Opens Google AI Search Probe, Orders Interim Safeguards
The Competition Board will investigate Google’s AI search features and has ordered temporary conditions addressing how publishers’ content is used.
Key takeaways
- Turkey’s Competition Board opened an investigation into Google’s AI Overviews and AI Mode.
- The board ordered interim conditions on content use and publishers’ choices.
Turkey’s Competition Board has opened an investigation into Google’s AI Overviews and AI Mode in search, and ordered interim measures affecting how the company uses news publishers’ content.
The board is examining whether the features violate competition law, including whether they change how users access information and reduce traffic to publishers and other content creators. It is also reviewing content-use contract terms, possible exclusionary effects and differences in how publishers’ material is selected or licensed.
The board said it found strong indications of potentially discriminatory and exploitative conduct toward publishers. Its interim measures require Google to set conditions that avoid discrimination among publishers, reflect the economic value of content use and let publishers make content-use choices independently of their visibility and indexing in other Google services.
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