# Gemini 3.1 pro preview - CITATIONS issue/bug

**URL:** <https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/gemini-3-1-pro-preview-citations-issue-bug/141979>\
**Category:** Google AI Studio\
**Tags:** bug, ai-studio, models, gemini\
**Created:** [April 23, 2026, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/gemini-3-1-pro-preview-citations-issue-bug/141979 "2026-04-23T13:53:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![BReal](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/breal/32/110782_2.png) [@BReal](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/BReal)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2026, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/gemini-3-1-pro-preview-citations-issue-bug/141979/1 "2026-04-23T13:53:03Z")

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Lately, in AI Studio, almost every reply that I get from gemini 3.1 pro preview when it is writing code in dart (for a flutter app), it writes at the end of the reply:

”Citations:

[https://github.com/ClementBeal/dragonfly](https://github.com/ClementBeal/dragonfly)”

I have no idea what this dragonfly is, I clicked on the link and apparently it’s some sort of old attempt at a flutter browser.  
The thing is that I had ‘Grounding with google search’ turned off, also every other tool option was off. Thinking set to HIGH, temperature set to 0.3, everything else set to standard values.

I feel that it’s quite abnormal that the model provides a citation when I didn’t enable grounding with google search or url context.  
That dragonfly flutter browser attempt seems to have been abandoned 2 years ago, therefore it’s likely not even up to date code, I doubt that it can help the model in any way to look at that..

Would be great if someone at google could explain why this happens.

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**Author:** ![Example](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/example/32/118408_2.png) [@Example](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Example)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 4:43pm UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/gemini-3-1-pro-preview-citations-issue-bug/141979/2 "2026-04-27T16:43:55Z")

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same here. it actually gives me two citations

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**Author:** ![BReal](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/breal/32/110782_2.png) [@BReal](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/BReal)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 9:23pm UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/gemini-3-1-pro-preview-citations-issue-bug/141979/3 "2026-04-27T21:23:08Z")

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Yes, sometimes the citations differ, but still I doubt that they are supposed to even show up at all when having grounding with google search and url context disabled.

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**Author:** ![neew1152](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/neew1152/32/155319_2.png) [@neew1152](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/neew1152)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2026, 4:14am UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/gemini-3-1-pro-preview-citations-issue-bug/141979/4 "2026-05-04T04:14:51Z")

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**Author:** ![Mahesh\_Sutar](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/mahesh_sutar/32/31644_2.png) [@Mahesh\_Sutar](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Mahesh_Sutar)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2026, 1:59pm UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/gemini-3-1-pro-preview-citations-issue-bug/141979/5 "2026-05-19T13:59:53Z")

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Hello [@everyone](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/groups/everyone),  
Please note that while Grounding Search is an active tool designed for live web querying, the model is also capable of supplying functional links directly from its pre-trained dataset. Therefore, it can often fulfill requests for specific URLs without needing to execute a live search.