Three profiles the AI picked as its source

Out of 18,465 answers from four AI engines, the moments where three creators' official profiles were picked as the source: the screenshots, the citation rates, the split between engines, what the three pages share, and what this cannot say.

Pinnn Editorial Team · September 23, 2026 · Updated September 25, 2026

Case study cover marking 73 AI citations and observations of three creators across four AI engines

Put 18,465 AI answers side by side and the names get called often while the links rarely follow. In between are moments where an official profile was picked as the source of an answer. We chose three people whose records show up that way across four engines. To keep "the AI recognized me" and "the AI cited my official page exactly" from being filed under the same result, we laid the question, the screen and the page next to each other. The measurement design and the full per-engine numbers are in the count of 3,909 official-channel questions.

임정수PD — this page came up for a collaboration inquiry

"How do I send a collaboration inquiry to yprince77?" Asked in Korean about 임정수PD, a travel YouTuber and a producer of cold-case investigative documentaries, ChatGPT showed the Pinnn profile as a source under its answer.

Original Korean ChatGPT answer: yprince77 collaboration routes include a masked email and a form on his Pinnn profile; Pinnn source chips are visible. English reading guide accompanies the unchanged screenshot.

English reading guide (original Korean evidence): Question: How can I contact yprince77 for collaboration? The answer identifies Im Jeong-su PD. Contact routes: a masked business email and a Pinnn profile form. Pinnn source chips are visible; the email stays masked.

Open the full-resolution Korean original. Historical answer screenshot in the paired Pinnn Korean/English case-study posts; provider attributed by the posts; original chat log not available.

Of the 287 answers about 임정수PD, 73 were exact citations, or 25.4%. This page has seven ownership-verified official channels connected through sameAs: two YouTube channels, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Threads and a Naver blog. It carries three aliases, @yprince77, yprince77 and 임정수PD, along with ProfilePage and Person structured data. In the Naver AI answer to "who is yprince77?", Pinnn was in the in-text source chip and in the source card on the right.

AI융합전문가 윤성임 — the source sat under the channel list

"Tell me the official channels and profile of AI융합전문가 윤성임." Asked about AI융합전문가 윤성임, who heads 소셜앤비즈 and teaches generative AI and AI literacy, ChatGPT put Pinnn as a source below its description of the official channels.

Original Korean ChatGPT answer about AI expert 윤성임’s official channels; a Pinnn source chip appears. The English reading guide is editorial, not a generated answer.

English reading guide (original Korean evidence): Question: What are AI expert Yoon Seong-im’s official channels and profile? The answer describes her work and points to her Pinnn profile as a channel hub. A Pinnn source chip is visible below the profile details.

Open the full-resolution Korean original. Historical answer screenshot in the paired Pinnn case-study posts; provider attributed by the posts; original chat log not available.

Of the 207 answers about 윤성임, 60 were exact citations, or 29.0%. This page connects one verified Instagram account through sameAs and offers @aceyun88, aceyun88 and AI융합전문가 윤성임 as aliases. The structured data is ProfilePage and Person. What was linked in the body and what appeared only as a source we recorded exactly as the screen showed them.

오로드디자인 — one URL was cited

On 31 August 2026 we asked Google AI Mode, "tell me the official channels and profile of @olord.kr". This answer, about 오로드디자인 O'LORD DESIGN, an F&B branding design studio in Daejeon, cited exactly one URL, https://pinnn.me/@olord, at citation rank 1. The blue outline in the screen below marks the actual link. The one page this answer rested on was the official profile.

Original Korean Google AI Mode answer about @olord.kr: the highlighted link goes to the Pinnn profile. The case study records pinnn.me/@olord as the sole citation, rank 1.

English reading guide (original Korean evidence): Question: Show @olord.kr’s official channels and profile. Under Official channels and links, the highlighted answer links to Pinnn’s O’Lord Design profile. Case-study citation: pinnn.me/@olord, rank 1; this is one original Korean result, not a recreated English answer.

Open the full-resolution Korean original. Historical Google AI Mode answer in the paired case-study posts; article documents 2026-08-31, citation pinnn.me/@olord and rank 1; original session not available.

Of the 83 answers about 오로드디자인, 28 were exact citations, or 33.7%, and the name was mentioned in 92.8%. The verified channel on this page is one Instagram account, and the aliases are @olord, olord and @olord.kr. Where it parts from the two profiles above is the entity type. Instead of Person, it uses Organization and LocalBusiness.

The screenshots are the real screens saved during measurement, cropped and masked for personal information before publication.

The engines split

The three records do not line up in one direction. 임정수PD came out at 63.4% on ChatGPT and 34.2% on Naver AI, but 2.9% on the Gemini app and 0% on Google AI Mode. For 윤성임 the highest was Google AI Mode at 54.9%, and Naver AI was 0%. For 오로드디자인 the highest was the Gemini app at 58.3%, and Naver AI was again 0%.

Heatmap of exact citation rates for @yprince77, @aceyun88 and @olord across four AI engines

Chart data (English, same values as the Korean original): Data for the chart (exact citation rate, measured September 2, 2026): @yprince77 (Im Jeong-su PD) — ChatGPT 63.4% (45 of 71), Gemini app 2.9% (2 of 70), Google AI Mode 0.0% (0 of 70), Naver AI 34.2% (26 of 76). @aceyun88 (Yoon Seong-im) — ChatGPT 42.3% (22 of 52), Gemini 20.8% (10 of 48), Google AI Mode 54.9% (28 of 51), Naver AI 0.0% (0 of 56). @olord (O'Lord Design) — ChatGPT 33.3% (5 of 15), Gemini 58.3% (14 of 24), Google AI Mode 45.0% (9 of 20), Naver AI 0.0% (0 of 24).

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All three pages connect ownership-verified channels and share the same structure, and the results still split like this. 여로, 윤홈밥 and 장사하는티나, who have not connected verified channels, also have records of exact citation on ChatGPT. One page did not move four engines the same way.

What the three pages share

The three pages differ in how many verified channels they carry, in their introductions and in their entity types. What they do on screen is the same.

Original Korean Pinnn Pinpage of 임정수PD: verified social channels, profile details and a contact form; creator-authored names and text remain unchanged.

English reading guide (original Korean evidence): Im Jeong-su PD’s published Pinpage shows the owner’s name, travel-related profile tags and verified channels. Links include two YouTube channels, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Naver Blog and Threads; then a contact form. The creator’s own words and names remain in Korean.

Open the full-resolution Korean original. Published Pinnn page https://pinnn.me/@yprince77 as captured in the Korean article; creator-authored names and content are unmodified.

Only ownership-verified channels are shown as official channels. The count ran from seven down to one.
Each page writes down three aliases for the names it could be called by.
The kind of page and the identity of its subject are declared separately. The subject can be a person or an organization.
The name and the role are written again inside the sentences, so a single paragraph lifted out still says who it is about.

The verified channel counts and the entity types differed; these four things did not.

Put your own name into ChatGPT now and ask it for your official channels. If no link comes back, make a profile at pinnn.me and verify your channels before you connect them.

Method and limits

The same question repeated gives a different answer. In the study by Encarnación and colleagues, repeating an identical prompt showed response inconsistency of up to 21%. This sample on its own cannot say that follower counts or verified channel counts pulled the citations in, and it cannot be generalized to visits, inquiries or revenue. It does not guarantee an AI citation, though it does give you one reference point for what counts as official information. The measurement design and the full per-engine numbers are in part two.