Study: LLMs Fake Drug Knowledge by Relying on Naming Patterns
allen_ai · x · 2026-08-19
Researchers found that LLMs often lack specific drug knowledge and rely on morphological clues in names (e.g., "-pril" for ACE inhibitors) instead. By using the open OLMo model and the infini-gram tool, they traced the training data to confirm this behavior.
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