Astroturfing, AI Search Manipulation

AI Search Rewards Comparative Advantage. Astroturfing Knows It

GEO practitioners keep asking the same question: how do we detect AI search manipulation with astroturfing before it pollutes search results? That’s the wrong question. It treats astroturfing like an infection: something foreign that snuck in, something a filter could catch. Astroturfing is structural. AI search systems don’t verify truth. They estimate credibility from the…