Source attribution connects a statement, summary, image, or dataset to the person, organization, document, or publication that supplied it. In AI-generated news products, attribution helps distinguish original reporting from generated synthesis and repeated claims.
Useful attribution is specific and placed near the supported material. A link alone is insufficient when it points to a page that does not contain the claim, hides the original source, or gives no publication context.
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Source attribution tells readers where information came from. It lets them open the original material, judge its credibility, and see whether a summary represented it fairly.
For example, a daily digest can place the publisher name and article link beside each short summary. Readers can then check the full report instead of having to trust the AI-generated wording alone.
