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# AI chatbots are recommending fake retail websites, study finds

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**Published:** 2026-11-12T17:00:00.000Z
**Category:** Research
**Topics:** safety

## Summary

A study found that AI chatbots are recommending fake retail websites, with Perplexity performing the worst of the three engines tested\.

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