How is it not conflict of interest when Google's AI summary (which is sometimes hilariously wrong) takes a click away from websites that pay for ads? Specially if it was trained on those websites
The sites paying for ads are usually offering products and services, not information. If you search "Plumbers near me", there will be no reason to have an AI summary, so they can show the ads. If you are searching "what temperature does copper melt", no one was buying ads on that anyway.
The point is that the sites from which the AI summary sourced its information might have ads, and if Google only linked to them they'd get ads impressions
