Willison notes that while citing sources helps verify accuracy, building a system that does it well “can be quite tricky,” but Citations appears to be a step in the right direction by building RAG capability directly into the model.
Apparently, that capability is not a new thing. Anthropic’s Alex Albert wrote on X, “Under the hood, Claude is trained to cite sources. With Citations, we are exposing this ability to devs. To use Citations, users can pass a new “citations:…
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