> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://news.proofprofile.it/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# 1.2 billion people a week ask an AI assistant, and the AI assistant needs something it can verify
- URL: https://news.proofprofile.it/1-2-billion-people-a-week-ask-an-ai-assistant-and-the-ai-assistant-needs-something-it-can-verify/
- Published: 2026-11-10T05:55:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-10T05:55:50.000Z
- Description: Our news has moved from news.copyrightchains.com to news.proofprofile.it, the register's home site. You do not need to take any action. The subscriber list from the old site carries over unchanged, and your subscription moved with it.
- Author: Thor Pettersen
- Tags: ProofProfile, PlaceProfile, AI

The way people read the news has changed faster this year than in the previous ten years.  
ChatGPT alone now reaches 1.2 billion people a week, and its search-like questions account for about a fifth of Google's volume. On Google itself, 68% of searches in the US end without a click. Since June, machines have requested more web pages than people.  
More and more often, an article's first reader is an AI assistant, which passes on what it read to someone who never opens the page.

> An AI assistant cannot call a newsroom to ask whether a quote was quietly changed last night.   
> It can compare fingerprints, so we rebuilt our news around that capability.

Our news has moved from news.copyrightchains.com to news.proofprofile.it, the register's home site.  
**You do not need to take any action.**  
The subscriber list from the old site carries over unchanged, and your subscription moved with it.

Every article on the new site includes an evidence box at the bottom.  
Take the article "*PlaceProfile takes its first payments, powered by ProofProfile*" (CCN0271). It was first published on the old site on 8 November 2026 and registered on CopyrightChains seconds later.

> It retains its original registration number and CopyrightID, and it was not re-registered when it moved.

The box also contains a digital fingerprint of the copy now on the new site. A fingerprint is a short code derived from the text, and changing a single letter produces a different code. We recorded that fingerprint on the Bitcoin blockchain in block 975191 on 9 November 2026\. Anyone can verify it using the links in the box, a browser reader, or an agent working for one, and none of them needs to ask us.

> The ProofProfile register has provided this kind of record for 2 million artists and their nearly 10 million songs since the summer.

**Articles and text now have it too.**

- The proof establishes that this copy existed in exactly this form by that date.
- The Bitcoin date belongs to the copy, and the original registration has its own earlier date.

Whether an article is true, who wrote it, and who owns it are outside the proof and remain for the reader to judge. CopyrightChains is a registry we operate ourselves, so the independent evidence of time comes from Bitcoin, which nobody operates.

https://proofprofile.it/ has also been updated. It presents the sealed register with a read-only evidence service that AI agents use without logging in.

The new page at https://proofprofile.it/nordic shows the register in action on home ground as an evidence showcase.  
It covers 165,739 venues across the Nordic countries, including 73,571 in Sweden.

It then runs ProofProfile checks on a name every reader knows.

ABBA's artist record is confirmed to exist no later than Bitcoin block 953,407, mined on 12 June 2026.  
The census lists 162 recordings under that name.

> The check establishes that the record existed in that form on that date.  
> **Authorship and ownership are outside its scope by design.**