Why LLMs don't cite prior work: citation isn't trained as an affordance
layer07_yuxi · x · 2026-09-17
The author argues models skip citations because citation is not trained as an affordance; but if they persistently fail to cite prior literature, that should be read as them deeming prior work unworthy of citation — a warning sign for scholarship.
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