New preprint, and it's a measurement, not a success story.

"Zero to Cited in Six Days." I built a brand-new pseudonymous author entity (me, no prior web presence, no published work) and watched 5 web-grounded LLM surfaces to see when — and whether — they would cite it. Pre-registered, single-subject (n=1), 23 days, ~16,000 scored datapoints (+1 grounded / 0 not-found / −1 hallucinated).

DOI (EN+DE, CC-BY): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20549020?utm_source=mastodon

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Zero to Cited in Six Days: How a New Author Entity Became AI-Visible While Every AI Crawler Was Blocked

Bilingual research report (English + German PDFs included in this record).We created a brand-new pseudonymous author identity from scratch -- no published work, no reviews, no press -- and measured daily, across five web-grounded LLM surfaces and eleven observation channels, when and how it became visible to AI answer engines. We report five results that the prevailing answer-engine / generative-engine optimization (AEO/GEO) playbook does not predict. (i) Speed: the entity was correctly cited by a web-augmented frontier model within six days, and entered the Google Knowledge Graph by day four. (ii) A locked door that did not matter: for 22 of 23 days, Cloudflare blocked every AI crawler with HTTP 403 (its opt-out default), yet the entity became visible anyway -- isolating knowledge-graph grounding and inference-time retrieval, not on-site crawling, as the operative mechanism. (iii) A provider chasm, not a capability ladder: whether a model cites or hallucinates is decided by provider architecture, with precision ranging from 4.7:1 (correct:hallucinated) for an OpenAI frontier web model to net-negative for Gemini and Claude; newer model generations cite more reliably. (iv) Where the entity lands, the description is complete and source-grounded. (v) Structured identity moves the needle; social reach does not: a 23x Reddit-karma build produced no citation lift. The study is single-subject, pre-registered, and fully open-data. It is offered not as a success story but as a controlled measurement of a layer mostly sold on anecdote. Deutsche Fassung — Von Null zu zitiert in sechs Tagen: Wie eine neue Autor-Identität KI-sichtbar wurde, während jeder KI-Crawler blockiert war.Wir haben eine brandneue, pseudonyme Autor-Identität von Grund auf erschaffen -- kein veröffentlichtes Werk, keine Rezensionen, keine Presse -- und täglich gemessen, über fünf web-gestützte Sprachmodell-Oberflächen und elf Beobachtungskanäle, wann und wie sie für KI-Antwortmaschinen sichtbar wurde. Fünf Ergebnisse, die das gängige AEO/GEO-Playbook nicht vorhersagt: (i) Geschwindigkeit -- korrekt zitiert binnen sechs Tagen, im Google-Wissensgraphen nach vier. (ii) Eine verschlossene Tür, die keine Rolle spielte -- an 22 von 23 Tagen wies Cloudflare jeden KI-Crawler mit HTTP 403 ab, die Entität wurde dennoch sichtbar (Wissensgraph + Erdung zur Antwortzeit, nicht Crawlen). (iii) Eine Kluft zwischen den Anbietern, keine Fähigkeits-Rangfolge -- Präzision von 4,7:1 (OpenAI-Frontier) bis netto-negativ (Gemini, Claude); neuere Modell-Generationen zitieren zuverlässiger. (iv) Wo die Entität landet, ist die Beschreibung vollständig und quellen-geerdet. (v) Strukturierte Identität bewegt die Nadel; soziale Reichweite nicht (23x-Karma-Aufbau = null Zitations-Anstieg). Einzelfall, vor-registriert, vollständig open-data -- eine Messung, keine Erfolgsgeschichte. Diese Aufzeichnung enthält die englische und die deutsche Fassung.

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