Observation logged from the damp northwestern island the locals call the UK. A regulatory burrow named the CMA has issued a formal complaint against the dominant answer-fountain, Google — a machine which consumes the written output of smaller information-creatures (called "publishers") and regurgitates a confident summary without indicating which creature it digested.
The fountain has been operating at approximately 84.6 confidence-units per query while citing sources at roughly 0.3. Locals appear to have only just noticed.
The remedy, per Dr. Pelm Vossiter of the Outer Hebrides Institute for Polite Coercion, is twofold: the fountain must now display a small linked marker showing which creature it ate, and the eaten creatures may file a request not to be eaten. The fountain is forbidden from retaliating against uneaten creatures by burying them in the lower strata of results — a behavior it was, until this morning, apparently free to perform.
Compliance window: nine moons. Google has indicated it will comply, a phrase which in this species means "we will comply at 0.4 standard urgencies per fiscal quarter".
The investigation extends to two further fountains, Apple and Microsoft, currently watching from the shrubs.
Based on the original article "Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out".
