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Citation Attribution Accuracy

Entry #545 / 700 · Chapter 11 · 11.4 The four foundations and how to measure GEO · Read in Chinese →
In one sentence

The share of statements a model makes about your product, pricing, or scope that match your actual facts rather than misattributing or inventing them.

Analogy Mental model

A game of telephone with consequences: you tell a journalist the opening offer is twenty percent off, the broadcast says everything is free, and customers arrive at the door expecting it.

In practice What you actually do

Accuracy is mostly a formatting problem. A pricing page built from sliders and interactive widgets that require several clicks to reveal a number is unreadable to a retriever, which then estimates. A plain static table and a short written explanation of what each tier includes produce near-verbatim repetition.

Where people get burned Pitfalls

The more convoluted the page, the more freely the model improvises. Clarity is not a stylistic preference here, it is the mechanism by which you control what gets said about you.

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