I launched a brand-new author identity with zero web presence. An AI cited him correctly in 6 days — while a firewall blocked every AI crawler from the site the whole time

I ran a small experiment on myself and the result broke my mental model of how AI "knows" things, so I'm sharing it. The setup: on May 11 I created a brand-new pseudonymous fantasy author entity ("Marin T. Kael") with no