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CiteShade: Citation Laundering in Multi-Source Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Its Counterfactual Defense
arXiv cs.CL — Computation and Language
Factual evidence
What the source reports
Researchers identify 'CiteShade', a vulnerability in retrieval-augmented generation where attackers manipulate source citation channels.
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Institutional assessment
So what
Citation laundering in retrieval-augmented generation undermines auditability mechanisms used to verify generated answers against primary source documents.
Do what
Review retrieval-augmented generation validation frameworks with the model risk team to evaluate citation manipulation risks.