Adding citations to an AI answer feels like the moment the system becomes trustworthy. The response looks researched. Source links appear beside the text. The model is no longer answering only from its training data. But a cited answer can still be wrong. A citation may support a nearby sentence rather than the claim the user cares about. A source may be authoritative while the retrieved passage is stale. File Search may query the wrong store or document version. The model may retrieve ...