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I keep thinking about how unfair AI retrieval quietly is today. A model can pull insight from someone’s dataset, research thread, or niche knowledge base, generate a polished answer in seconds, and the original source may never even know it helped. The user gets convenience, the model gets smarter, but the contributor disappears into the background.
That is why OpenLedger’s direction around Proof of Attribution and RAG feels more important than people realize. It is not just about attaching citations to AI outputs. It is about figuring out which piece of retrieved knowledge actually changed the final answer and giving that influence economic weight.
That changes the meaning of a citation entirely. Instead of being a polite reference at the bottom of a response, it becomes a tiny financial signal flowing back to the source that made the answer better. If AI becomes retrieval-driven, attribution may quietly evolve into the payment layer of the knowledge economy.
