The AI answer you can’t trace is the answer you can’t use

A crude tanker slows off a chokepoint and its AIS transponder, the automatic signal ships broadcast to identify themselves and their position at sea, goes dark for eleven hours. To a generic AI model, that’s a gap in a data stream. To anyone with money or compliance exposure on the line, it’s a question: whose ship, carrying what, under whose sanction’s regime and does the silence mean anything?