Scholar Argues Users Must Actively Prompt LLMs for Literature Credit
AlexKontorovich · x · 2026-08-06
Countering the claim that LLMs inherently fail to trace ideas and give credit, researcher Alex Kontorovich argues that leaving unverified text as-is is purely user sloppiness.
He points out that LLMs are highly capable of literature search; users simply need to explicitly ask the model to list relevant papers. The responsibility then lies with the user to actually review the found papers and verify their accuracy.
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