{
  "id": "N-MACHINE-LINK-v1.0",
  "type": "report",
  "title": "It wrote the right address. Only the link was opened.",
  "author": [
    {
      "family": "Hay",
      "given": "Chris"
    }
  ],
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2026,
        10,
        11
      ]
    ]
  },
  "URL": "https://chrishayuk.com/records/N-MACHINE-LINK/1.0",
  "publisher": "Chris Hay",
  "version": "1.0",
  "abstract": "NATIVE-001b Phase 0b gave consumer ChatGPT an index page whose access code was one relative path away, written as plain text. In both trials ChatGPT wrote the correct absolute URL and reported it inaccessible; no request reached the server, and neither answer invented a code. A frozen amendment changed only the presentation of that path to a hyperlink: both trials requested the page and returned the exact code. The presentation-dependent difference is supported in the tested setup. Whether link availability governs retrieval more generally, and which component prevented the plain-text requests, remains unresolved."
}