In this 2025 study, more than half of LLM responses cited fake sources or links.

www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

It isn't using its sources, it's fabricating them - often outright making up citation, making up facts, etc. Because it isn't trained to produce an accurate answer, just an answer that looks human produced. If you want actual, reliable sources here are a few:

We are in the midst of an all-out attempt to exclude the global majority from science. Watson was clear about where he fell on that. I would trade every single dinner, meeting, seminar, fancy campus, and prestigious donor for my incredible friends to be safer. Their science is worth far more.

So important a story, it's on page 4