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An agent checks his lecturer partner's references against the real sources

Built an LLM-backed reference checker for his partner, a lecturer: an agent reads each cited source and checks the reference is correct and not hallucinated.

How it works

  1. He builds a reference checker for his partner, a lecturer
  2. An agent reads each cited source
  3. Checks the reference is correct and not hallucinated

Why it’s worth knowing

Hallucinated references are the quiet scandal; this is the quiet fix.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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