When ChatGPT cites web sources in it's output to the user, it will call `backend-api/attributions` with the URL and the API will return what the website is about.
Basically it does HTTP request to fetch HTML `<title/>` tag.
They don't check length of supplied `urls[]` array and also don't check if it contains the same URL over and over again (with minor variations).
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When ChatGPT cites web sources in it's output to the user, it will call `backend-api/attributions` with the URL and the API will return what the website is about.
Basically it does HTTP request to fetch HTML `<title/>` tag.
They don't check length of supplied `urls[]` array and also don't check if it contains the same URL over and over again (with minor variations).
It's just bad engineering all around.