Study Finds: Higher Reasoning Effort Makes LLMs Less Likely to Ask Clarifying Questions
xuanalogue · x · 2026-08-12
The author shares a counterintuitive phenomenon found in recent research: as you increase the reasoning effort on a reasoning language model, it becomes less likely to ask the user clarifying questions in response to an ambiguous request. This echoes the issue that AIs are rarely trained to collaborate with or consult real humans.
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