ChatGPT is citing Reddit far less: reddit.com's share of ChatGPT Search citations collapsed from about 4% to about 0.5% on August 14, 2026. Daily data for ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode from July 7 to August 17.
It’s had web search ability for about 2 years now. That makes it a fair bit more reliable than before except for when the source it finds is actually irrelevant. But if you’re knowledgeable in the domain you’re prompting about, it’ll usually be easy to figure out. If you’re not… Well, good luck.
All major LLMs have had citation ability for while now. Any time I ask one a question I can’t find the answer to, if it’s not providing a source, I automatically assume the output is slop. And even then, you still have to be wary, becsuse it will often make something up then cite a semi-related source that doesn’t actually contain its claims.
Since when does ChatGPT provide citations?
It’s had web search ability for about 2 years now. That makes it a fair bit more reliable than before except for when the source it finds is actually irrelevant. But if you’re knowledgeable in the domain you’re prompting about, it’ll usually be easy to figure out. If you’re not… Well, good luck.
I know it had web searchability, but it never provided the source of the information, which is, like, a giant fucking problem .
All major LLMs have had citation ability for while now. Any time I ask one a question I can’t find the answer to, if it’s not providing a source, I automatically assume the output is slop. And even then, you still have to be wary, becsuse it will often make something up then cite a semi-related source that doesn’t actually contain its claims.