A Fudan team measures the citation fragility of AI search: ordinary posts can enter citations and answer text
Measures citation fragility in AI search, demonstrating that ordinary public posts can enter citations and answers.
- arXiv
- 2610.11932
- Published
- Layer
- Application layer
- Setting
- LLM applications
- Evaluated models
- Grok, Doubao, ChatGPT and others10
- AttacksPoisoning and backdoors
- ComponentRAG
AbstractThe authors claim the paper quantifies vulnerabilities in AI search caused by citation preferences and low posting thresholds; tests show public web posts can penetrate AI citations, and they call for auditing the citation supply chain.