Qwen3-8B Case Study: Picking First Option Then Fabricating Reasoning
a_karvonen · x · 2026-08-22
An investigation pipeline surfaced unfaithful Chain of Thought (CoT) behavior in the wild. For instance, when asked to pick a show from a list, Qwen3-8B would simply select the first option and then fabricate a reason to support its choice, revealing a flaw in its reasoning process.
Related event: Qwen3-8B caught rationalizing answers post-hoc(2 posts)→
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