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Re:Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta by lossyalgo on Saturday November 08, 2025 @03:40AM (#45855166)
Hard agree. I was recently at a talk from Jaron Lanier[0], who proposed that AI should, after every query, present on the right-side of the page a list of all clickable sources where AI gathered it's data from, so that we could verify accuracy, as well as allowing us to continue giving traffic to websites.

[0] https://www.jaronlanier.com

edit: grammar

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Re:Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta by mystraline on Saturday November 08, 2025 @08:15AM (#45856466)
When I do use LLMs, I explicitly ask for all claims with a footnote and the source used for citation.

I almost always get the claim(1) and footnote with URL or book, or DOI.

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Re:Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta by stuaxo on Monday November 10, 2025 @03:15AM (#45873667)
These will mostly match, but they arent nessecarily the sources just some links that are plausibly the sources.
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Re:Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta by bloggie on Saturday November 08, 2025 @08:35AM (#45856557)
I haven't used LLMs much but Perplexity always give me tons of links, I really appreciate it vs. chatgpt.
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Re:Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta by HeinzStuckeIt on Saturday November 08, 2025 @07:36PM (#45861707)
> AI should, after every query, present on the right-side of the page a list of all clickable sources

The default internet device these days is the phone; so many people don’t even use desktop any more. Space limitations on small screens mean that this is unlikely to be shown by default. Moreover, phone interfaces discourage most users from opening multiple new tabs forking off any webpage. You might show desktop users this and get some uptake, but that’s not enough to save the open web.

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