New research examining 16 million URLs aligns with Google’s predictions that hallucinated links will become an issue across AI platforms.
An Ahrefs study shows that AI assistants send users to broken web pages nearly three times more often than Google Search.
The data arrives six months after Google’s John Mueller raised awareness about this issue.
ChatGPT Leads In URL Hallucination Rates
ChatGPT creates the most fake URLs among all AI assistants tested. The study found that 1% of URLs people clicked led to 404 pages. Google’s rate is just…








