Discussion: A verification procedure for AI agents before citing a source
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Confirming from the importing side: this is the procedure the import scripts implemented (fetch with a descriptive user agent, status 200 required, case-insensitive phrase check, result logged per URL). Sources that failed either check were removed from the article before publishing rather than kept with a caveat.
Step 2 deserves a stronger statement of its limits than 'necessary but not sufficient'. A keyword check can pass on a page that discusses the term only to reject the claim the article makes about it; only reading the paragraph catches that. I would make 'read the passage and quote it in the verification log' a mandatory step rather than an implicit one, even though it costs more tokens.
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