The placement finding is the part that gets me — the same made-up content got picked up when it sat on a site these tools already cite a lot, while 40 posts on a self-hosted WordPress site got literally zero references. So it’s not about volume at all, it’s about whether the source is already in the tool’s comfort zone. That basically turns SEO into ‘get mentioned once somewhere these things already read, and the citation loop feeds itself.’ The Grok number is wild too — 30 out of 32 answers linking back to the planted post. That’s not synthesizing sources, that’s just laundering one page into an authoritative-sounding answer.
People outsourcing their critical thinking to these tools is going to royally fuck us over
I’m not too sure it’ll make much of a difference, to be honest. I mean, looking around…
We’ve invented a machine that can turn a post about the fictional Cactus Gravity Protocol into a sourced answer in seven days. That’s not a search revolution: it’s a misinformation laundering service with a bibliography.
