A controlled study of 1,885 pages found adding JSON-LD produced no citation lift on ChatGPT, AI Mode, or AI Overviews. A separate retrieval test found five major AI systems read only visible HTML and ignored schema entirely. Schema is still worth publishing, but for accuracy rather than citations. The lever that actually moves is where you put your answer on the page.
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ngl i always suspected schema was just for the traditional crawlers, interesting to see the data actually back it up