AnalysisPolicyOctober 20, 2026

Experiment: 50,000 fake stats got cited by ChatGPT

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A site seeded with 50,000 fabricated statistics drew over 10,000 AI sessions in 7 months and links from 330+ referring domains, including Shopify, Bluehost and DHL. Google deindexed the pages; ChatGPT did not, and the made-up numbers reached an academic paper and a bank's investment research.

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