Couldn’t LLMs cite primary sources much the same way as a textbook or Wikipedia? Which is how you circumvent the biases in textbooks and wikipedia summaries?
A raw LLM is a bad tool for citations, because you can't guarantee that their model weights will contain accurate enough information to be citable.
Instead, you should find the primary sources through other means and then paste them into the LLMs to help translate/evaluate/etc, which is what this author is doing.
