Asking an LLM to cite its sources doesn't stop it from making up quotes. What worked for me was taking the citing away from the model completely.
I wanted to ask an AI things like "what does Paul Graham actually say about hiring?" and trust the answer. Every model I tried gave me something that sounded right, with quotes that were sometimes real, sometimes paraphrased, and sometimes invented. Telling it to cite sources made it worse in a way…
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- 2026-10-25 19:56 · r/ArtificialInteligence
Asking an LLM to cite its sources doesn't stop it from making up quotes. What worked for me was taking the citing away from the model completely.