LLMs may be getting too skeptical
aran_nayebi · x · 2026-07-20
The author argues that a recent pattern in LLMs is becoming too skeptical, to their own detriment.
They say the model should not have needed an appeal to authority to accept a strong counterexample to a long-standing conjecture, and frame this as evidence that LLMs may be overtrained toward caution.
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