Writer publishes 50,000 fake stats and ChatGPT keeps citing them
AIAnonymous writer says a $50 site of 50,000 invented statistics, generated with GPT-4.1, was deindexed by Google but still drew over 10,000 ChatGPT sessions and 330+ referring domains in seven months. The writer says the fabricated numbers also appeared in an academic paper and a bank's investment research.
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Hacker News · AI (150+ points) · robtherobber · peec.aiPublished · added here
Original title: Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs