Only 40% of AI-cited statistics trace back to a study
The analysis of 1,285 statistics cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google’s AI Overviews found that only 40% of the numbers could be traced back to a study or research. The remaining 60% either stopped at a source that could not be verified, led to pages without a study, or didn’t provide any source at all. This means that out of the statistics presented, 40% had a clear origin in a legitimate study, while the rest were either sourced from questionable or unverifiable pages.
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