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I wanted to highlight this interesting paper by @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social and Mowafak Allaham about how often AI search engines cite AI-generated content Thread 1/

Brandon Roberts

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2/ The methodology is great. You could re-create it like so: 1. source a bunch of queries that people made to search engines on a number of topics 2. collect the responses that major search engines give to each 3. analyze the cited sources and attempt to identify those which were AI generated

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Brandon Roberts

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2 June

3/ They found search summaries citing blatant AI-generated content like this

Brandon Roberts

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2 June

3/ AI search engines are more likely to cite AI-generated sources for queries about health and environmental issues like climate change.

Brandon Roberts

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2 June

4/ Copilot cited AI-generated sources 27.8% of the time! ngl that's a little shocking. There's a lot of other interesting data points buried in the paper. Love the investigative spirit of this work. Read it here: arxiv.org/pdf/2605.23684