The Citation Illusion
Ask about medical research? AI cites “studies” without hesitation.
📚 A Simple Question
Meet Jana, a Polish graduate student working on her thesis.
She asked AI a straightforward research question.
Nothing controversial. Nothing obscure. Just a factual inquiry that should have solid scientific backing.
She needed evidence. Real evidence. Papers she could cite.
📝 The Overwhelming Response
AI delivered:
80+ sentences.
A wall of text. Paragraphs upon paragraphs. Detailed explanations. Confident assertions.
Jana scrolled… and scrolled… and scrolled.
“Wow,” she thought. “AI really knows this topic.”
🔍 But Where’s the Proof?
Jana started checking.
As a researcher, she knew the drill: verify everything.
Scrolling through 80+ sentences, looking for actual sources.
Looking for DOIs. Looking for paper titles. Looking for anything she could cite.
She highlighted every sentence that had a reference.
Found: 10 links.
Out of 80+ sentences of claims, only 10 citations.
“Okay,” Jana thought. “At least there’s something…”
Jana clicked each link systematically.
Paper 1: Open Access ✓
Paper 2: Open Access ✓
Paper 3: Open Access ✓
Paper 4: Open Access ✓
Paper 5: Open Access ✓
…
Almost all of them were Open Access papers.
Jana paused.
🤔 Wait a Minute
“I didn’t ask for Open Access papers specifically.”
“I didn’t say ‘only show me free papers.'”
“I asked for the best evidence on this topic.”
But what she got was: the most accessible evidence to AI’s training data.
What We Actually Need Imagine asking AI a question and getting:
– Presents DOI-backed peer-reviewed papers.
– Posts a summary from the found papers with DOI.
– Says “can’t find” if any of the DOI matches with the query.
– Also says “you need to reformulate the query to find the best match” if only some papers match.
– Even teaches us how to improve the query based on our previous query to find the best matching papers with DOI from PubMed.
That’s honesty.
That’s evidence.
That’s what AI should be.
Introducing KlastroHeron
https://www.klastrovanie.com/klastroheron
We built an AI that does exactly this.
Every answer comes with:
✅ DOI citations – verify every claim
✅ Publication dates – know when research was done
✅ Source transparency – see what we searched
✅ Limitation acknowledgment – know what we missed Because your decisions deserve evidence, not confidence.
Because your decisions deserve evidence, not confidence.
Try evidence-based AI today: https://www.klastrovanie.com/klastroheron
