ChatGPT often explains the wall before answering whether it is tilting

Aware-sky-3489 · reddit · 2026-07-21

The poster argues that ChatGPT often skips the most basic sanity check and jumps straight into abstract explanations.

Using the example of asking whether a wall is tilting, they say the model tends to produce caveats and structural-engineering context before answering the simple yes-or-no question. The post asks whether this is a byproduct of RLHF, a reasoning tradeoff, or something deeper.

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