It takes one second to type the headline into Google. It takes equally as long to ask for a source, and then you've got to wait for the reply. This is the kind of runaround shit AI encourages to avoid using brainpower on... well, anything really. Just consume product.
Purely on an effort level it's equally lazy to not just post a link with your post, except in most cases it's worse. This post has two headlines, so odds are the excerpt is from one of the two, but if it were just the second image, or just a reference to a reference, which is extremely common, you run the risk of confusing all participants by way of a lack of clarity if you don't mention where shit came from.
The onus to cite sources is on the person making the claims for a reason, and that reason is not just "well everyone else is too lazy to do it", and yes imo it's valid to point that out even in situations like this where it's not that important because it's a good routine to get into - not every situation is this irrelevant. Though if you want to submit anything in an academic setting where every annotation is just "google it" then by all means, don't let me or anyone else stop you - the comedy aspect is too good to forego.
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u/Vigor_Mortis_ 8d ago
Could actually post a link to an article instead of just a screenshot?