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WHY CHATGPT CITES ONE PAGE OVER ANOTHER (STUDY OF 1.4M PROMPTS)

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ChatGPT is an aggressive editor. It favors its general search index, uses semantic similarity to select and cite sources, and treats Reddit like a textbook. The pages that get cited are the ones whose titles and content match the questions ChatGPT is asking behind the scenes, and that surface through the right retrieval channel.