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The Verge reports a new My Ad Center section disclosing whether an ad on Search, Discover, or YouTube used AI in creation or editing. It's viewer-level disclosure, not an advertiser restriction, and the definitional gap will matter enormously as generative tooling becomes the default in every ad workflow. Is a generative fill on a background "edited with AI"? Nobody's said. First-mover disclosure from the largest ad platform tends to become the de facto standard, gaps included.
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Publishers can embed a button on their own sites marking them as a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, including inside AI Mode and AI Overviews. Google says people are twice as likely to click through to a preferred source when one is available, and tha...
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