Consumer-UI fidelity
also known as: consumer_ui
The higher-fidelity capture level: the response is taken from the actual consumer interface a person uses — the real ChatGPT app, the real Google results page — rendered in a real browser session. It includes what only the interface shows: the answer as presented, source treatment, AI Overview placement, shopping and ad modules. Contrast with an API surrogate, where the vendor’s API stands in for the UI.
In AI Search API
The own-fleet browser lane delivers consumer_ui and is the auto default for chatgpt, perplexity, copilot, google_ai_overview, google_ai_mode, google_search and google_news — running guest (logged-out) sessions today. provenance.fidelity records what was actually delivered on every capture, so a surrogate can never masquerade as a UI capture.
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See it in the product
Every definition here is enforced in the Envelope contract — run a capture and read the fields yourself.