Asking Claude for a direct quote, it just hands back a hallucinated link
xuenay · x · 2026-09-22
xuenay shares a failure case: an article's conclusion clearly referenced X, but when asked for a direct quote, Claude simply returned a link instead of the actual text — a classic hallucinated citation.
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