AuthorityBench shows citation presence (real or fabricated) increases LLM hallucination rates vs no-citation baseline, strongest for fabricated citations on true claims, with domain variation but negligible venue or author effects.
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Authority, Truth, and Citation Bias: A Large-Scale Multi-Domain Benchmark for Studying Epistemic Susceptibility in Large Language Models
AuthorityBench shows citation presence (real or fabricated) increases LLM hallucination rates vs no-citation baseline, strongest for fabricated citations on true claims, with domain variation but negligible venue or author effects.