Understanding Competitive Displacement – AI Entity Authority

The condition in which a competing entity has achieved higher CPQ than the target entity for the target's primary category queries – the AI cites the competitor in response to queries that should cite the target. Competitive Displacement is the outcome measure of Conflation Engineering (T-1 attack), vocabulary displacement (T-2 attack), or organic competitive construction. Detection requires the Controlled Testing Protocol to isolate the cause. Within the AI entity authority context; distinct from generic competitive displacement in strategy literature.