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Notes on research, sources, and what a citation is allowed to mean.

A citation is a promise. These notes are about keeping it.

1. 012026-08-14Why do AI deep-research reports cite URLs that don’t exist?

   Deep-research agents cite more URLs than search-augmented models, and hallucinate more of them. A citation is a promise that the page exists.

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