Reddit has discussed shutting off Google’s access to data used to train its Gemini AI models. Or maybe it’s just a renegotiation bluff now that its $60 million-a-year deal is coming to an end. According to The Wall Street Journal: > … with AI-generated answers to queries reducing clicks to outside websites, Reddit executives are assessing what the upside is of continuing to feed its content to Google, said the people familiar with the matter. Google Zero comes for us all, eventually. [Link: Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers. Now Some Are Thinking of Cutting It Off. | https://www.wsj.com/business/media/google-search-publishers-ai-content-0fb06e41?st=afkkxc&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink | wsj.com]

Reddit has discussed shutting off Google’s access to data used to train its Gemini AI models. Or maybe it’s just a renegotiation bluff now that its $60 million-a-year deal is…

Disallowing search indexing would be a big escalation.

Reddit, USA Today, Reuters, Politico, The Economist, and People Inc. are among the companies reconsidering how much access they should give Google as referral traffic continues…