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Paper Examines Citation Laundering Attacks in Multi-Source RAG Systems
A new arXiv paper describes "citation laundering," where retrieval-augmented generation systems surface citations that appear legitimate but do not actually support the claims they are attached to, weakening the audit trail users rely on. The authors propose a counterfactual defense aimed at detecting and mitigating this manipulation across multiple retrieved sources. The work sits in the cs.CL area and is listed as a cross-list announcement.