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How do you implement citations and source attribution in a RAG system, and why does it matter?

Citations turn a RAG answer from 'trust me' into something checkable, and they are a genuine engineering problem. The signal is grounding each claim to a specific passage and verifying the attribution, not tacking a bag of links onto the end.

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Citations turn a RAG answer from 'trust me' into something checkable, and they are a genuine engineering problem. The signal is grounding each claim to a specific passage and verifying the attribution, not tacking a bag of links onto the end.

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