Working citation links do not prove quotes are accurate, lab tests find

A DEV Community lab tested whether AI citation checks can rely on links that open successfully. In 60 simulated answers, every cited local file existed, yet the check had to confirm the quoted words themselves. Exact matching of the quote as a contiguous run of tokens in a stored source caught all wrong-document, merged, and reworded quotes. Simple normalization was needed because raw byte comparison wrongly rejected a third of genuine quotes. The author warns that normalization itself can erase meaning, such as signs, decimal points, and superscripts, so it should preserve numbers as written.
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