How Do AI Assistants Decide When to Use Outside Sources and What Are Citations?
AI assistants either answer from training data or retrieve live sources first. This video shows how they decide, what a citation really is, and why some are not real.
Who is this video for?
- Marketers and users learning how AI produces sourced answers
- Teams trying to understand where citations come from
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In this video, you learn:
- The two ways an assistant answers: from training data or from retrieval
- How a time-sensitive prompt triggers a live search and citations
- What citations look like in an AI answer
- Why some citations are hallucinated and can lead to 404s
- How to tell a real retrieved source from model-generated text
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