[supriyo-biswas]

Phind’s base model, which is GPT3.5/4 doesn’t itself do attribution, it’s made to do that with prompt engineering which provides the most relevant materials on the web based on a word embedding vector search, and then asks it to reference each source in the answer.

[TeMPOraL]

I mean, this is more-less what a student does when writing a paper, when they're forced to cite their sources. They first come up with an idea based on their own understanding/recollection, then they try to figure out where did they first took that idea from. If they remember a specific source, they'll cite that; if they don't (because there may not be one specific source they learned from), they'll search for some existing work that expresses the idea in question, and cite that.

I.e. in case of both the student and an LLM, correct citation doesn't actually mean the idea originates from the cited work - only that the work contains this idea.

[detourdog]

Thank you I want to believe responsible development is happening. I just asked an LLM my first question and the interactive processing was great to watch.