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85% -- content discard rate for ChatGPT (2025)
ChatGPT discards 85% of retrieved content before generating its final answer and citations.
- Based on an AirOps study analyzing 548,534 retrieved pages across 15,000 prompts.
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85%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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dont-feed-the-algorithm.beehiiv.com
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https://dont-feed-the-algorithm.beehiiv.com/p/don-t-feed-the-algorithm-issue-043 ↗
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Don't Feed The Algorithm: Issue 043
🐊 Editor's Note
Hey there,
Welcome back to another Don’t Feed The Algorithm, your weekly dispatch from Averi — where we explore the intersections of marketing, AI and the future of work.
This week's biggest number isn't a revenue figure or a user count. It's 85%.
That's how much content ChatGPT retr…
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dont-feed-the-algorithm.beehiiv.com
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Newsletter citing unspecified AI search research
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ChatGPT: 85% content discard rate. Source: dont-feed-the-algorithm.beehiiv.com (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/chatgpt-discarded-content-85
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