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Agents are not neutral — they apply heuristics about source authority, recency, and consistency that determine whether your product's content is treated as ground truth or discarded as noise.
Use these three in order. Each builds on the one before.
In one paragraph, explain how an AI agent decides which sources to trust when researching a topic.
Walk me through the signals an agent uses to rank and filter retrieved documents before inserting them into its context — covering authority, recency, and consistency checks.
Given two sources about a product — a company's own documentation versus a third-party review on a high-authority domain — how would a typical agent weigh them, and under what conditions would it favor one over the other?