Inconsistent publishing formats force AI systems to infer meaning, breaking attribution, authority, and recency “Why is AI showing a county emergency alert as if it came from the city fire department?” The answer it provides looks complete and confident, but the source is wrong. The alert was issued by a county emergency management office, yet the AI response assigns it to a city agency with a similar name. The details are partially correct, but the authority is not. The result is a misattributed public safety update presented as fact. How AI Systems Reconstruct Meaning from Fragmented Inputs AI systems do not interpret government websites as unified, structured records. They ingest content as fragments—pages, paragraphs, metadata fields, and repeated references—and then recombine those fragments into an answer. During this process, the structure that originally separated one agency from another is often weakened or lost.…