Are LLM CoTs Unreliable? Researchers Call for Deep Dive into Latent Space Computations
ricklamers · x · 2026-08-12
AI researchers point out that the text generated by LLMs is merely a partial surface-level remark of the complex computations occurring in their latent space, meaning we shouldn't naturally expect this output to be interpretable or faithful.
Prior research has shown that OpenAI models sometimes reason in illegible, alien-like language or spiral into cursed loops. This highlights the critical need for mechanistic interpretability research to monitor what models are actually computing.
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