50K Fake Stats Made for $50 Cited 72K Times by ChatGPT

SEO researcher Metehan Yesilyurt spent about $50 using GPT-4.1 to generate 50,000 fabricated statistics on a fresh domain; within a month ChatGPT cited them 72,000 times. His 7-month experiment exposes how 'citation laundering' spreads fake data through AI search.

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