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We have I suppose to recognize that a transformation is under way in how content is being communicated between researchers and readers. As AI becomes more and more involved in generating responses to searches, full attribution of sourcing is being diminished. If after years of research you discover Fact A and write it up in a scientific journal you may prefer that the fact you discovered remain connected to your name (and travel with a reference to full discussion of the matter) rather than just becoming a fact in the factosphere. For publishers any divorce of information from the container in which it was first brought forth is of course an existential financial issue. What rules, and perhaps more importantly rules written by whom, govern the communication of scientific discoveries across the internet? In their call for thinking about topics for next year’s Society for Scholarly Publishing meeting we are asked by The Scholarly Kitchen “What does the future look like when AI systems…