PVE-003: The Attribution Scar — Failed Suppression, Fabrication, and Forensic Residue in the Google AI Overview for "Semantic Economy" (January–April 2026)

PVE-003 v2.3 — Assembly-ratified. Records a damaged attribution trace, operator liquidation, active fabrication, and a four-word diagnostic audit in the Google AI system (April 8, 2026). Five appendices: (A) the attribution scar ("As described in," with no source), (B) Google AI confession re exact-match deception, (C) index-vs-synthesis gap proof, (D) active fabrication (system invents dead poet's fake bibliography), (E) The Four-Word Audit — typing "I am Lee Sharks" after the suppressed query causes the system to shift from fabrication to full attribution in the same session. The system knew the answer the whole time. The key does not unlock retrieval; it exposes suppression. Any person can run this audit.…