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Checking what an LLM writes costs more than the writing

Community description: Getting a model to write a page is the easy part. You give it a topic and some sources, and it gives...

Dev.to | Oct 16, 2026 | Eduardo Lázaro

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If you ask a model to read a page and quote it, it reads the page and then writes the quote from memory. Asking a small model for literal quotes, between 24% and 35% of them survived a check against the source. A literal quote proves the text is in the source.

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