--- title: "You Ask, I Answer: How to Correct AI Source Data?" author: "" date: 2025-09-18 url: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2025/09/you-ask-i-answer-how-to-correct-ai-source-data/ categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Brand" - "Content" - "Generative AI" - "Videos" tags: - "youtube" --- # You Ask, I Answer: How to Correct AI Source Data? ## Summary In today's episode, I discuss how businesses manage and correct inaccurate information within AI responses and third-party sources. Here's what this means for you. You protect your brand reputation by ensuring AI models and websites present the most accurate version of your business. You'll also learn these concepts: how to approach third-party publishers for corrections, why researching industry-wide AI sources matters, and how building authoritative content on your own properties maintains control over your data. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-5Q0PikD2A[/embed] ## Key Takeaways - You'll learn how to approach third-party websites to correct factual errors about your brand - You'll discover how to pitch similar industry sources when initial correction attempts fail - You'll explore how building authoritative content on your own platforms helps you control your data ## Full Transcript In today's episode, Barbara asks, I've noticed many click-free AI responses draw from a variety of web sources, including third-party websites we don't own or have the ability to edit. If the info on these sites is outdated or factually incorrect, it could present a real reputational risk. Do you have any recommended strategies, approaches for businesses to stay on top of this, or is it simply a case of having to just contact these third parties when an issue is discovered? You identified it. This is not new. SEO folks for years and years and years and years have been uh trying to do exactly this, trying to get broken links fixed to their website. Uh so this is this is nothing new, should not be anything new. Uh that is the exact approach I would take is to go and contact the sources that have factually incorrect information. Obviously, you're gonna need to uh prove to them that you do have your legitimate source, and then get them to do the updates. And if they're unwilling to, uh then your next best bet is to figure out what similar sources are coming up, and if you're not in them, uh to pitch them and to say, like, hey, here's some useful information. So, whatever let's say there's an article about me as a keynote speaker, right? And the article is still saying I'm the VP of marketing technology at the old PR firm I used to work at. I would reach out and say, Hey, I'm now the co-founder and chief data scientist of Trust Insights. Thank you for having me in your article, but this is this is where I am now. And if I didn't get a response, I might say, Okay, well, this content source is like this other source. So maybe I can take a look at that original piece and come up with a new version of it and say, Well, now, you know, here's my current take on whatever the topic is, and make sure that the new piece is embedded with all my correct information and try and get it to similar sources. One of the best things you can do as a marketer or an SEO person or a PR person or whatever, is to run research on all the different AI tools for your industry or your niche in your industry, not your company, but your industry, because you want to know what sources someone is coming up with, and then see how what your presence in those sources is. And the thing about it is this a lot of people are talking about how you how do we optimize for AI? How do we make sure AI knows who we are? Taking this approach of how can we be in the places that are that are being cited as sources will have multiple levels of benefits because it's not just you saying I'm trying to optimize for AI, you're also going to benefit from the human beings who go to those places too. So that's the most sensible approach to take to go to the initial third parties and say, hey, this is incorrect. Here's the correct information, here's our credentials. If they don't do the thing, then look at the nearest competitors and try to get new versions of that content to those competitors. And of course, at the same time, be publishing on your authoritative properties as much as you can, putting up stuff on your YouTube channel, putting out your podcast, writing your newsletter, uh, putting up your blog posts so that on those particular topics, you have it. There's a version that is correct. One of the things I do, for example, uh for myself is I record all of the podcasts that I've guest up here on. And because I know some people do editing and things like that, and that's fine. Uh, I I I like that, but I want to have a version on my website with my version of the transcript um so that there's a version of that content that I have some control over now. Now, I will typically publish this, you know, 90 days later or whatever, long after the initial episode is out, so that the outlet I'm talking to doesn't get cannibalized for their attention. But I will still do that because I want to make sure that there's a version of that data that's available. And because my website is so old, um, it has a lot of built-up authority. I can make sure that correct versions of information are there. So that's my suggestion for for your question, Barbara. Thanks for asking. We'll talk to you on the next one. In today's episode, if you enjoyed this video, please hit the like button. Subscribe to my channel if you haven't already. 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