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> I wouldn't be concerned about trusting the results of ChatGPT if it also were providing links to the sources it had cited or used as a reference in its answers.

This will only be a problem for a few more years. Soon every article, paper, and website will be generated by a LLM. Verifying the output of ChatGPT by referencing other LLM generated source material will be a pointless exercise.

If the system was willing to link to the sources from which it obtained particular information, it would be too easy to hold them accountable for having stolen a bunch of content from people who didn't opt in!

> Unfortunately, it doesn't, and so I can't verify them.

Try asking for sources, whenever I have asked, it gives them.