Prompt: Citation Verification

Category: AI Prompts for Everyday Work

A one-paste audit that forces any LLM to defend its own claims. Drop it after a research-heavy answer and the model lists every dated, numeric, named, or quoted statement next to a source and a confidence rating. If it cannot point to a source, it has to say so out loud.

This is the cheapest critical AI literacy habit we have. It exposes the citation gremlins in flagship models that look confident but cite nothing real.

Works with

ChatGPT
Claude
Perplexity
Gemini
Grok

Prompt / skill content

Here is the response you just generated. For every claim with a date, number, name, or quoted text, tell me:
(1) the claim,
(2) a source you can point to,
(3) confidence the source says exactly this.
 
If you cannot name a source, say so explicitly.

Where to get it

Read the original resource.

Tags

ai-literacy
hallucination-check
citation-verification
prompt-engineering
fact-checking
gpt-5-5
claude-opus

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