When AI Combines Multiple Government Sources: Why Source Separation Becomes Necessary

How overlapping guidance collapses into a single narrative without structured attribution “Why does AI say the county issued this emergency order when it was actually the city?” The answer appears confident, complete, and recent. It summarizes evacuation guidance, cites an official-sounding authority, and presents a unified directive. But the details are wrong. The evacuation zone belongs to a municipal order, while the timing and enforcement language come from a county bulletin issued hours earlier.