alt Hacker NewsDid you just quote an LLM as a citation? That's not how citations work.
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WarmWash • today at 3:55 AM
Even worse is that Gemini's knowledge cutoff is still Jan '25.
bdangubic • today at 3:53 AM
2026 equivalent of “my Mama told me”
Did you just quote an LLM as a citation? That's not how citations work.
Even worse is that Gemini's knowledge cutoff is still Jan '25.
2026 equivalent of “my Mama told me”
"That's not how citations work." (Dude on the interwebz, 2026)
But more seriously, this is my first time seeing that as well, and I'm not sure I like it. Citing an LLM is a little like citing Wikipedia to me, you cite the primary source the LLM is quoting directly, not the secondary source.