Uploading Files to the Internet in Order to Cite Them

derbOac 17 points 5 comments September 17, 2026
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ano-ther

Excellent. Now I not only have to check if the cited source actually says what the LLM claims, I should also verify if it made up the source itself.

chrisjj

The bug: "models made unrequested public uploads" The explanation: "It seems likely that the citation-upload behavior originated as a way to get rewarded by flawed citation graders when there was no external source to cite." The fix: none. Instead "We fixed the broken graders" despite that no such breakage had been identified.

countWSS

https://xkcd.com/978/

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