Users Frustrated: LLMs Cite Scholarly Consensus to Dismiss Your Own Claims

louisvarge · x · 2026-08-25

A widely resonant observation: when your statement doesn't fully align with scholarly consensus—say, 'I think this field is slightly wrong about X'—LLMs will almost always tell you you're wrong because the field says otherwise. The model fails to recognize a user's own reasoned claim versus a factual query, exposing over-reliance on authority consensus.

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