Let’s say I ask “who created Linux?” Claude correctly tells me Linus Torvalds, and links to Wikipedia.
There are probably thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of other sites that have that some piece of information. Are LLMs supposed to link to every site?
Most sites do not have unique information at all, and even sites that do rarely contain only unique information. Implying that most sites deserve links because they were crawled seems like a statistical fallacy. You could say the same thing about the percent of sites crawled by Google versus ever showing up on first page of results.
Let’s say I ask “who created Linux?” Claude correctly tells me Linus Torvalds, and links to Wikipedia.
There are probably thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of other sites that have that some piece of information. Are LLMs supposed to link to every site?
Most sites do not have unique information at all, and even sites that do rarely contain only unique information. Implying that most sites deserve links because they were crawled seems like a statistical fallacy. You could say the same thing about the percent of sites crawled by Google versus ever showing up on first page of results.