Nearly every Google Image search result has AI images now, personally I’m starting to attribute this to Image Search just having been neutered and downgraded a ton over the past few years anyway so worse content surfaces in general.
But consider it from Googles perspective and this is why I think they won’t care, serving snippets and caches of articles had rights holders attacking them, serving thumbnails of images has rights holders attacking them, serving tiny bits of songs in the background of video had rights holders attacking them.
Serving AI doesn’t, I don’t think the current management at Google will care if Google shows fake baby peacocks as long as it can serve them without being bothered by rights holders, same way a Gemini summery can launder article information.
But consider it from Googles perspective and this is why I think they won’t care, serving snippets and caches of articles had rights holders attacking them, serving thumbnails of images has rights holders attacking them, serving tiny bits of songs in the background of video had rights holders attacking them.
Serving AI doesn’t, I don’t think the current management at Google will care if Google shows fake baby peacocks as long as it can serve them without being bothered by rights holders, same way a Gemini summery can launder article information.