Models hedge too much, mimicking human fear of imaginary peer reviews
tokenbender · x · 2026-08-16
An observation notes that current LLMs often exhibit excessive hedging in their responses. This isn't due to addressing actual objections, but rather the models mimicking human fear of being wrong and anxiously reacting to potential objections that do not exist yet.
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