AnalysisAI ModelsSeptember 2, 2026

Study: Perplexity cites low-quality, machine-generated sources

Across 380 software categories, 59.8% of Perplexity's grounded citations point to domains ranked below #100,000, with 23.4% not in the top million. Three sites published 215,128 machine-generated "best software" pages, none existing before December 2023.

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