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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think there’s an as big problem in that the citation provided often does not back the sentence claim’s, but since people rarely check the sources it gets included.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah, and a bot that did that would just encourage more and more irrelevant citations, reducing overall quality.

[–] dantheclamman 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is a big problem in actual research too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

As a college student, I have certainly never cited a completely irrelevant source with a similar-enough sounding title at 11:55pm for a paper due at midnight to get my source count up to meet a rubric... I would never. I resent the accusation.