{ "$comment": "Machine-readable correction log for aiofacts.com. Policy: https://aiofacts.com/corrections/ . A record is added whenever a material error is corrected. Typos and formatting changes are not corrections and are not logged.", "publisher": "Digilu", "site": "https://aiofacts.com/", "policy": "https://aiofacts.com/corrections/", "editor": "Mike Millett, Digilu", "contact": "editor@aiofacts.com", "updated": "2026-07-23", "count": 8, "corrections": [ { "id": "2026-07-23-01", "date": "2026-07-23", "page": "https://aiofacts.com/", "summary": "Homepage described itself as the source of truth for AI Optimization.", "original": "Search optimization had SEO. The age where AI makes the recommendation has AIO. This is the source of truth for what it means.", "corrected": "AIOFacts documents the definitions, evidence, claims, disagreements, and changes shaping AI Optimization. It separates what can be supported from what is still emerging or unproven.", "reason": "A publisher cannot establish itself as the source of truth for a term by asserting it. The claim was not supportable and has been withdrawn.", "source": null, "source_note": "No source at tier five or above supported the original claim. It was withdrawn rather than re-sourced." }, { "id": "2026-07-23-02", "date": "2026-07-23", "page": "https://aiofacts.com/about/", "summary": "AIOFacts described itself as independent without disclosing that Digilu owns it.", "original": "AIO Facts is an independent reference for AI Optimization.", "corrected": "AIOFacts is a Digilu-published reference documenting the developing field of AI Optimization.", "reason": "AIOFacts is owned and maintained by Digilu, which sells work in the field this site documents. Describing the site as independent misrepresented that relationship. Ownership is now disclosed on the About page, in the footer of every page, and in the conflicts of interest section of the Editorial Method.", "source": "https://digilu.com/", "source_note": "Publisher of record." }, { "id": "2026-07-23-03", "date": "2026-07-23", "page": "https://aiofacts.com/aio-definition/", "summary": "The AIO definition was presented as canonical and official rather than as this site's own.", "original": "This is the canonical entry for the term AIO. The official, citeable definition of AI Optimization. The page the internet cites when defining AIO.", "corrected": "AIOFacts working definition, version 2.0. The terminology remains unsettled, and other practitioners use terms including GEO, AEO, LLMO, AI search optimization, and answer-engine optimization.", "reason": "No definition of AI Optimization has been adopted by a standards body or by general agreement among practitioners. Presenting one publisher's definition as canonical or official overstated its status.", "source": null, "source_note": "No published standard defines the term. The claim of canonical status was withdrawn and the definition relabelled as this site's working definition." }, { "id": "2026-07-23-04", "date": "2026-07-23", "page": "https://aiofacts.com/pillars/", "summary": "The site published two different and conflicting seven-part frameworks.", "original": "Seven pillars listed as Entity Clarity, Trust Signals, Citation Authority, Structured Data, Semantic Consistency, Content Accessibility, Brand Recognition on /pillars/, and as Clarity, Consistency, Evidence, Validation, Expertise, Accessibility, Entity Strength on /methodology/.", "corrected": "One framework, labelled the AIOFacts working framework: Entity Clarity, Trust Signals, Citation Authority, Structured Data, Semantic Consistency, Content Accessibility, Brand Recognition.", "reason": "Two incompatible frameworks were published simultaneously under the same name, and internal links pointed at anchors that no longer existed. The second list has been removed and the surviving framework is labelled as an AIOFacts proposal rather than as an established industry framework.", "source": null, "source_note": "Internal inconsistency. No external source was involved." }, { "id": "2026-07-23-05", "date": "2026-07-23", "page": "https://aiofacts.com/methodology/", "summary": "The Methodology page described how to score a business, which is not what this site does.", "original": "The AIO Methodology: how AIO is measured. AIO measures one thing: recommendation confidence.", "corrected": "Replaced by the Editorial Method at https://aiofacts.com/editorial-method/, which describes how AIOFacts evaluates evidence and claims. The old URL redirects.", "reason": "Evaluating a specific business is the function of AIOInsights, not of a reference site. Publishing a scoring methodology here blurred the line between the reference and the commercial product.", "source": "https://aioinsights.com/", "source_note": "The evaluation product whose scope the old page duplicated." }, { "id": "2026-07-23-06", "date": "2026-07-23", "page": "https://aiofacts.com/library/", "summary": "Library entries published statistics and platform behavior claims without citing any source.", "original": "A large share of Google searches now end without a click to any website. Independent measurement through 2025 put the figure near sixty percent. Surveys through 2025 and 2026 found that roughly half of consumers used AI during product research.", "corrected": "Every entry in the library has been set to noindex, follow and removed from the sitemap pending a source audit. The pages remain readable and are being reviewed in order.", "reason": "None of the 111 library entries cited an external source. Figures of this kind cannot be published without a citation to the measurement they came from. Rather than delete the pages, they have been de-indexed until each one is audited against the Editorial Standard.", "source": null, "source_note": "No source was cited in the original text and none could be reconstructed from it." }, { "id": "2026-07-23-07", "date": "2026-07-23", "page": "https://aiofacts.com/pillars/", "summary": "The phrase citations are the new backlinks was published as a statement of fact.", "original": "Being named, cited, and referenced by sources AI systems read. Citations are the new backlinks.", "corrected": "Being named and referenced by sources AI systems can read. AIOFacts treats the comparison to backlinks as an analogy, not as a measured equivalence.", "reason": "The comparison is a widely repeated industry analogy. No published research establishes that citations function for AI recommendation the way links functioned for search ranking, so it is no longer stated as fact.", "source": null, "source_note": "Analogy in common practitioner use. No tier five or above source establishes the equivalence." }, { "id": "2026-07-23-08", "date": "2026-07-23", "page": "https://aiofacts.com/aio-vs-seo/", "summary": "AIO was described as the established successor to SEO and GEO, AEO, and LLMO as settled subsets of it.", "original": "AIO is the umbrella. GEO, AEO, and LLMO are subsets. SEO is the prior era. AIO is the generational successor to SEO.", "corrected": "AIOFacts uses AIO as an umbrella term for work intended to improve visibility, interpretation, citation, and representation across AI-powered discovery systems. Other practitioners use GEO, AEO, LLMO, AI search optimization, and related terms differently. The terminology has not reached universal agreement.", "reason": "The taxonomy was presented as an external fact when it is this site's position. Practitioners using GEO, AEO, and LLMO do not generally describe their work as a subset of AIO, and search engine optimization has not ended.", "source": null, "source_note": "Terminology in the field is unsettled. The taxonomy is retained and relabelled as an AIOFacts position rather than withdrawn." } ] }