amal66 is making citation badges earn their authority
A citation check should catch a misleading abbreviation, not certify it.
amal66 is tightening the checks behind chat citation badges after finding that an abbreviated quotation could be approved even when it changed the source's meaning. A missing "not", an exception tucked behind an ellipsis, or fragments assembled from separate passages could all look verified.
The proposed safeguards are specific:
- Quoted fragments must appear in the same order as the source.
- Large gaps between fragments are rejected, limiting quotation stitching across distant text.
- Hidden negations and exceptions can withhold the verification badge, including at the start or end of an abbreviated clause.
The team has also tested these controls against deliberate misquotation attempts while preserving legitimate short-form quotations. The cautious trade-off is that some borderline abbreviations may lose their badge and require a human read.
Litigators and legal teams relying on AI-assisted source checking should care because a confident-looking badge is only useful if it protects meaning, not just matching words.
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