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Why would any LLM 'think' in terms of trying to cite prior work?

It itself is prior work. It's asking a fish to show where the water is. The fish can't imagine that absence, and the LLM can't imagine anything not being prior work.



Nowadays AI chat often will do web searches and include links. It will do that more if you ask.




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