Claim LD10-HQ-C16 (v1.0)
U.S. panel evidence through 2024 found LLM adoption associated with more unique websites visited and no greater concentration of LLM-routed traffic than search traffic.
Provenance and status
- Claim type
- ESTIMATE (as printed: “ESTIMATE”)
- Publication status
- ELIGIBLE (QUALIFIED) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER”)
- Verification state
- CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (ABSTRACT_ONLY) (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED ABSTRACT”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
- Does not license
- Claims about 2026 AI Overviews/AI Mode or all source diversity
- Source (field 6, as printed)
- Gholami, Firullo, Cheyre & Acquisti 2026, SSRN 6238578
- Source type (field 7)
- WORKING_PAPER (as printed: “Working paper”)
- Institutional position
- Independent academic
- Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity)
- EMERGING (as printed: “EMERGING”)
- Recorded date
- 2026-09-25
- Currentness / correction
- This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.
Version
Pinned version v1.0 (entry LD10-HQ-C16--v1.0) — this page never floats to newer evidence.
This pinned version is also the current version.
Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)
- “Gholami, Firullo, Cheyre & Acquisti 2026, SSRN 6238578” → SRC-LD10-GHOLAMI-SSRN-6238578--v1.0 — Gholami, Firullo, Cheyre & Acquisti 2026, SSRN 6238578; class WORKING_PAPER (explicit public provenance pin)
Read the originals
- SRC-LD10-GHOLAMI-SSRN-6238578: open the original
All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)
| # | Canonical field | Canonical value (verbatim) | Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLAIM ID | LD10-HQ-C16 | — |
| 2 | PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM | U.S. panel evidence through 2024 found LLM adoption associated with more unique websites visited and no greater concentration of LLM-routed traffic than search traffic. | — |
| 3 | CLAIM TYPE | ESTIMATE | base_types: ESTIMATE |
| 4 | RESEARCH STRAND | C — Intermediation/search | — |
| 5 | MATURITY | EMERGING | states: EMERGING |
| 6 | SOURCE | Gholami, Firullo, Cheyre & Acquisti 2026, SSRN 6238578 | source_ids: SRC-LD10-GHOLAMI-SSRN-6238578 |
| 7 | SOURCE TYPE | Working paper | classes: WORKING_PAPER |
| 8 | INSTITUTIONAL POSITION | Independent academic | — |
| 9 | SCOPE | U.S. Comscore panel 2019–2024 | — |
| 10 | DESIGN | Quasi-experiment + observational | — |
| 11 | SAMPLE / DATASET | Nationally representative panel | — |
| 12 | MODEL / TOOL / VERSION | LLM chatbots | — |
| 13 | COMPARATOR | Pre-adoption / traditional search | — |
| 14 | MAIN RESULT | Sustained increase in unique sites; LLM-routed traffic no more concentrated than search | — |
| 15 | INFERENTIAL TARGET | Web-attention diversity under chatbot adoption through 2024 | — |
| 16 | DOES NOT LICENSE | Claims about 2026 AI Overviews/AI Mode or all source diversity | — |
| 17 | VERIFICATION STATE | CONTENT VERIFIED ABSTRACT | state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · qualifiers: ABSTRACT_ONLY · verified_by: UNKNOWN |
| 18 | LIMITATIONS | Pre-answer-layer period; adoption selection | — |
| 19 | CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES | C12/C13 differ by interface and period, not necessarily contradictory | — |
| 20 | GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE | US / English | — |
| 21 | DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER | NO EVIDENCE LOCATED | — |
| 22 | R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS | D7, D1, R-1 | — |
| 23 | WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM? | 2025–26 panel including embedded answer layers | — |
| 24 | PUBLICATION STATUS | ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER | state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: QUALIFIED |
| 25 | RECORDED DATE | 2026-09-25 | — |
Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: D7 (DOMAIN); D1 (DOMAIN); R-1 (LENS)
Cited by Living Debate versions
Research-of-record provenance
Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 e94cd2ae88cd3f65fe2e7172bcca58241de3532bc9ff506e0529e1ae416b2684.
Frozen Drive-derived inputs
- R07 — LD-10 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0 — LOCKED (v1.0) — Drive ID
1f9tgGnqv80_UyhW0kCgcnTgWNPlx-DYM; revision: NOT_EXPOSED_BY_DRIVE_TEXT_EXPORT; Drive modified ; block “ENTRY 16 — LD10-HQ-C16 ” SHA-256d812acd822a9ad30d2c4b6df0f3bcc7fd7381e881753c9f8623e2fc2364c8e01; SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status “CURRENT.”; frozen fixturefixtures/frozen/r07-ld10-claim-ledger-v1.0-canonical.
Builder decisions (not Drive data)
- VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the canonical ledger artifact version (R07 — LD-10 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0); Implementation Architecture Selection §5 logical_id/version convention.
- CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status for "R07 — LD-10 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0 — LOCKED": "CURRENT."
- FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-LD10-GHOLAMI-SSRN-6238578--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 16 — LD10-HQ-C16 cites "Gholami, Firullo, Cheyre & Acquisti 2026, SSRN 6238578"; the frozen field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's ledger block (fixtures/frozen/r07-ld10-claim-ledger-v1.0-canonical); Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #53 Source inventory, factory-hq decision HQ-ESC-sociolens-ld10-t5-20261011T050405Z-01 ruling 3 inventory S10): R07 Batch 02 lines 114, 116, 117; ledger C16 fields 6/7/8.
- SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-LD10-GHOLAMI-SSRN-6238578--v1.0 — basis: Issue #5 proof rendering (Architecture Proof Protocol v0.1 AP-08 / Amendment v1.2 §6): explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion — the pinned field-6 Source record "Gholami, Firullo, Cheyre & Acquisti 2026, SSRN 6238578"; Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #53 Source inventory, factory-hq decision HQ-ESC-sociolens-ld10-t5-20261011T050405Z-01 ruling 3 inventory S10): R07 Batch 02 lines 114, 116, 117; ledger C16 fields 6/7/8.