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Everybody thinks you need fresh recent content to show up in ChatGPT. That's not the case at all. The average cited page is 500 days old, still getting picked. It favors its general search index, uses semantic similarity to select and cite sources, and trea...

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Everybody thinks you need fresh, recent content to show up in ChatGPT. That's not the case at all. The average cited page is 500 days old, still getting picked. It favors its general search index, uses semantic similarity to select and cite sources, and treats Reddit as a textbook it's embarrassed to admit it read. Basically, it goes to search, and if you have content close to the searches that AI is doing, there's a good chance you'll get cited. If your brand is in Reddit, there's a good chance you'll get cited. Here's something else: if your brand is in YouTube, there's a great chance you'll get cited. This is from Adweek. YouTube overtakes Reddit as a go to citation source on AI search. You can see what ChatGPT searched. Put in a prompt. Copy this part of the URL that comes after forward slash C, right click inspect, click network, refresh the page, paste in what you copied, click

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Everybody thinks you need fresh, recent content to show up in ChatGPT. That's not the case at all. The average cited page is 500 days old, still getting picked. It favors its general search index, uses semantic similarity to select and cite sources, and treats Reddit as a textbook it's embarrassed to admit it read. Basically, it goes to search, and if you have content close to the searches that AI is doing, there's a good chance you'll get cited. If your brand is in Reddit, there's a good chance you'll get cited...

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The creator claims ChatGPT does not require fresh content to cite a page, with average cited pages being around 500 days old.

AI citations / freshness · asserts

Everybody thinks you need fresh, recent content to show up in ChatGPT. That's not the case at all. The average cited page is 500 days old, still getting picked. It favors its general search index, uses semantic similarity to select and cite sources, and treats Reddit as a textbook it's embarrassed to admit it read. Basically, it goes to search, and if you...

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AI citation selection is described as relying on search index retrieval and semantic similarity between AI-generated searches and page content.

AI citations / semantic similarity · asserts

Everybody thinks you need fresh, recent content to show up in ChatGPT. That's not the case at all. The average cited page is 500 days old, still getting picked. It favors its general search index, uses semantic similarity to select and cite sources, and treats Reddit as a textbook it's embarrassed to admit it read. Basically, it goes to search, and if you...

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Reddit and YouTube are claimed to have strong AI citation potential, with YouTube overtaking Reddit as a go-to source in one cited report.

AI visibility / Reddit and YouTube · asserts

Everybody thinks you need fresh, recent content to show up in ChatGPT. That's not the case at all. The average cited page is 500 days old, still getting picked. It favors its general search index, uses semantic similarity to select and cite sources, and treats Reddit as a textbook it's embarrassed to admit it read. Basically, it goes to search, and if you...

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