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

https://hausresearch.com/reports/perplexity-citation-audit/

35•jakobgreenfeld•2h ago

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Gecko4072•48m 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.

tempfile•40m ago

BS machine produces BS; in other news water is wet and sky is blue.

Spivak•26m 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.

delichon•15m 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.

motbus3•27m ago

I felt that myself. And I have the same problem with gemini

betree•7m ago

100% my experience with this service. The intent is good, but it seems they're still in the "fake it until you make it" stage.

gamblor956•5m ago

This is why lawyers have been getting in trouble using AI to review case law or (worse) to generate documents.

It creates citations and references that look close enough to be plausible but are just made up of thin air. CA passed a law explicitly requiring lawyers to review AI-generated documents that is now before the governor for signing (previously, lawyers were ethically expected to review documents submitted to the court or provided to clients but that doesn't have the same level of force as an explicit requirement).

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https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-8-flash/

160•bratao•52m ago•78 comments

A Note from LWN

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422•rwky•2h ago•86 comments

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100•randycupertino•2h ago•15 comments

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157•teekert•3h ago•72 comments

Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them

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128•jakobgreenfeld•2h ago•73 comments

Exit the Cave

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46•akkartik•1h ago•13 comments

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53•vismit2000•2h ago•6 comments

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64•mdp2021•3h ago•22 comments

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235•giuliomagnifico•7h ago•119 comments

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86•goobreee•2h ago•28 comments

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

https://hausresearch.com/reports/perplexity-citation-audit/

40•jakobgreenfeld•2h ago•8 comments

Check if a file was made with Claude

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68•frexs•3h ago•42 comments

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38•theanonymousone•3h ago•17 comments

Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London

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152•TechTechTech•3h ago•133 comments

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-c...

9•simonsarris•21m ago•1 comments

The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks

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237•schmuhblaster•11h ago•82 comments

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32•Mojah•3h ago•16 comments

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Ending my elixir exploratory writing

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51•rendx•6h ago•29 comments

Using jq to format JSON on the clipboard

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36•stefanvdw1•3h ago•11 comments

Move in C++ without a std:move

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32•dalvrosa•1d ago•39 comments

The Cables That Connect the World

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30•surprisetalk•3h ago•6 comments

It's OK to hardcode feature flags (2025)

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58•biscuits1•5h ago•34 comments

Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model

https://multiversecomputing.com/resources/introducing-quasar-438b-europe-s-leading-ai-model

113•amunozo•6h ago•88 comments

Fine, I'll build my own text editor

https://dbushell.com/2026/09/01/text-editor/

212•Alephinitesimal•22h ago•201 comments