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50,000 fake statistics are still cited by ChatGPT 7 months later. Being cited is not being right.

On October 7, 2026, Metehan Yesilyurt of Peec AI published an experiment. He created a website called stateglobe.com with 50,000 fake statistics generated by GPT-4.1 for about $30. Google deindexed the site. ChatGPT still cites it 7 months later. The fake data has been cited in an academic paper, i…

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  1. 2026-11-10 08:00 · DEV Community — AI
    50,000 fake statistics are still cited by ChatGPT 7 months later. Being cited is not being right.

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