Citations turn a RAG answer from 'trust me' into something verifiable, and they are a real engineering problem. The signal is grounding each claim to a specific passage and verifying the attribution, not appending a bag of links at the end.
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Citations turn a RAG answer from 'trust me' into something verifiable, and they are a real engineering problem. The signal is grounding each claim to a specific passage and verifying the attribution, not appending a bag of links at the end.
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