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Did you just quote an LLM as a citation? That's not how citations work.
by rezonant 21d ago
Did you just quote an LLM as a citation? That's not how citations work.
- mapontosevenths 21d ago"That's not how citations work." (Dude on the interwebz, 2026) But more seriously, this is my first time seeing that as well, and I'm not sure I like it. Citing an LLM is a little like citing Wikipedia to me, you cite the primary source the LLM is quoting directly, not the secondary source.
- lokar 21d agoA Wikipedia link can be nice when you get several different sources provided.
- Forgeties79 21d agoIt’s the formatting and formality that bother me. Say “I looked it up with Gemini,” don’t give me some weak attempt at “proper citation” to legitimize the bare minimum effort you put in.
- hobo_in_library 21d agoWhy waste keystrokes when less do trick?
- Forgeties79 21d agoBecause a facsimile machine isn’t a reputable source lol
- speerer 21d agoFar worse from my perspective is that it's not a fixed citation that it's not falsifiable. It's just a mutable, generalized source, which is stochastic in nature. It may as well say "(Socrates, probably)"
- gspr 21d agoSo much of present day feels like being back in middle school around the turn of the millenium, with classmates (and even some teachers!) new to the internet insisting that "source: internet" or "source: google" was totally fine.
- bdangubic 21d ago2026 equivalent of “my Mama told me”
- WarmWash 21d agoEven worse is that Gemini's knowledge cutoff is still Jan '25.