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Zero to Cited in Six Days: I Put a Brand-New Author Online and Measured How Fast AI Started Citing Him
Community description: A pre-registered single-subject study: a brand-new pseudonymous author with zero web presence, and how fast 5 web-grounded LLMs started citing him — first citation in six days, with every AI crawler blocked.
Dev.to | Oct 15, 2026 | Marin T. Kael
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Kael — independent researcher, AI Citation Behaviour Lab. The headline number: the first correct LLM citation landed on day six. Scoring: every answer got +1 (correct and source-grounded), 0 (entity not found), or −1 (hallucinated — confidently wrong).
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