Under “conduct requirements” imposed by the CMA in June, UK websites are able to activate an opt-out to stop Google from scraping their content to power search features such as AI overviews - very similar conceptually to the news law passed in Australia.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-56163550

Bing sent traffic to the original source. AI answers don't. That's the line. It's not complicated.

Linking to work, where ownership and attribution is clear and the owner has the ability to commercialise is a very different thing to “laundering” content through the model, quoting the midjourney developers here

> "We just need to launder it through a fine-tuned codex." [0]

[0] https://cybernews.com/news/midjourney-ai-images-art-lawsuit-...

Huge difference between building AI and a search index.