Published: AI Cited You. Did It Actually Use You?

Heather Fricke

Sep 25

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The AI Journal published Heather Fricke’s contributed article, “AI Cited You. Did It Actually Use You?” on September 25, 2026.

Why it matters

The article separates citation presence from actual answer influence, interpretation and attribution fidelity. A source can be retrieved and cited without its distinctive evidence materially shaping the answer, and a business can appear visible while still being misunderstood. The piece extends Frick-E Energy’s work on the Human-AI Understanding Gap and Machine-Readable Authority™ into the measurement problem behind generative search.

Read the original publication: https://aijourn.com/ai-cited-you-did-it-actually-use-you/

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