Author says ChatGPT still cites 50,000 invented statistics
Original title: Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs
He reports Google buried the site, while ChatGPT-User made about 72,000 requests to it in 30 days.
A Peec AI author says he launched stateglobe.com in March 2026 with 50,000 statistics generated in one day by GPT-4.1, all invented, for about $50, plus 15,000 later listicles. He says Google visibility collapsed after two updates, but ChatGPT still retrieves the pages more than seven months later. He also reports more than 10,000 ChatGPT sessions, links from more than 330 domains, and made-up figures appearing in an academic paper and a bank's investment research.
Unconfirmed: Traffic, citation, and downstream-use figures are the author's own and are not independently confirmed here.
- Cloudflare logged more than 600,000 bot requests in the last 30 days, he says.
- About 72,000 of those requests were from ChatGPT-User, described as live answer fetches.
- He names Shopify, DHL, and Bluehost among referring domains.
- On October 7 his tracked prompts ranked the site second, behind Statista.
- Organizations
- Peec AI
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What I learned about AI search when I made up 50,000 stats that got cited by ChatGPT... About 7 months ago, I launched a website with 50,000 statistics. Every one of them was fake.
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