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AI citation checker flawed, developer finds; model was honest

A developer created a tool to verify citations made by AI research agents, only to discover their own checking mechanism was flawed. Initially, the tool flagged 18 quotes as inaccurate, but upon manual review, it was found that 12 of these were actually correct. The issue stemmed from the developer's HTML-to-text conversion process, which introduced errors, leading to a false positive in the citation checker. AI

IMPACT Highlights the challenges in verifying AI-generated content and the importance of robust evaluation tools.

RANK_REASON Developer's personal blog post about a tool they built and its subsequent debugging.

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AI citation checker flawed, developer finds; model was honest

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    I built a gate that checks every quote an AI research agent cites actually appears in the page it links to. It struck out 18 quotes. I checked them by hand: 12

    I built a gate that checks every quote an AI research agent cites actually appears in the page it links to. It struck out 18 quotes. I checked them by hand: 12 were there, character for character. My HTML-to-text step was inserting a space before punctuation, so I was comparing t…