"Context Poisoning": Correcting LLM Mistakes in Long Chats Can Backfire
ClickOk5811 · reddit · 2026-08-08
Correcting an LLM's mistake in a long conversation might actually reinforce the error. The back-and-forth tokens surrounding the refuted claim can inadvertently increase its weight, making the model treat it as an established fact rather than a one-off error.
This implies that repeatedly trying to explain things in the same session could be structurally worse than starting fresh with just the correct information.
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