CITETRACE dataset and evaluation framework show 30.6% of citations distort sources and 27.1% use domain-inappropriate sources in search-augmented LLMs, with provider differences explaining 88-96% of quality variance.
SourceBench: Can AI answers reference quality web sources?arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.16942, 2026
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Verified Misguidance: Measuring Structural Citation Failures in Search-Augmented LLMs
CITETRACE dataset and evaluation framework show 30.6% of citations distort sources and 27.1% use domain-inappropriate sources in search-augmented LLMs, with provider differences explaining 88-96% of quality variance.