A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for

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• Gecko407238 minutes ago
  I noticed this personally. Saw a citation with a preview for source A, which I knew was reliable. Checked, and it referenced a Reddit article and various other less reliable sources. Was a direct citation too that actually wasn't.
• motbus318 minutes ago
  I felt that myself. And I have the same problem with gemini
• tempfile31 minutes ago
  BS machine produces BS; in other news water is wet and sky is blue.
  • Spivak17 minutes ago
    What's surprising about this is that you can get the bullshit machine to produce correct externally validate citations. It's not particularly hard either—it's one of the first things you build when you give an LLM access to a body of documents/search. So for a large public service to whiff like this is certainly a stain on their credibility.
    • delichon6 minutes ago
      On the other hands it's a boost to their credibility that they make their mistakes easier to evaluate than their competition does. It would be worse if they had a similar error rate without openly providing references. Kudos to Perplexity for including more empirical attack surface.
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