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AI ads can amplify a business that already clears trust thresholds, but they cannot create credibility from nothing. In AI-mediated discovery, authority is the access layer.

AI systems do not trust single-source visibility. They cross-check business details across multiple platforms, then recommend only what they can verify. If your presence is concentrated on one channel, you create exclusion risk even with strong SEO. The fix is not more traffic, it is cross-platform consistency that AI systems can validate.