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When you say you have it cite its sources, do you actually read the source? Because I've noticed models continually cite sources that don't support what it's saying.
And it most definitely cannot think/reason/ideate - full stop.
And yet, somehow it does. If not in letter then in spirit
Please read the citations. I've found Claude (and a slightly lesser extend GPT) to be right more often than not, but the leading LLMs do get things wrong with enough frequency that it's worth checking.
Also, to be clear, I'm not fervently anti-LLM, but I do know how it works (as much as anyone who has read the academic literature). "Thinking" is at best a misnomer and at worst a marketing term. It's just an ouroboros; the LLM more-or-less feeds its output back into itself to "check" it and "think." It works surprisingly well, but it's not actual thinking.