An analysis of AI-generated source citations found that AI systems increasingly cite websites that appear to exist solely to be cited by AI, rather than established or niche publications. The author reports barely recognizing the sources returned when asking AI for citations, describing the phenomenon as the internet "inbreeding.
The internet is inbreeding. Lately, when I ask AI for sources, I barely recognize any of them. Not the "oh, a niche blog I hadn't seen before" kind of unfamiliar — more like websites that seem to exist for the sole purpose of being cited by an AI. So I looked into why that's happening. Turns out mos
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