Model's Self-Verification Misses Claims That Are Easily Googleable
xuenay · x · 2026-09-23
xuenay shared a close look at a model's follow-up behavior: the model admitted some claims "turned out to be accurate but just by chance" and listed claims it said it couldn't verify. Yet a quick Google search by the author surfaced relevant results for those exact claims.
The takeaway: the model's self-verification failed not from missing knowledge but from an inadequate retrieval step — the search didn't find what was readily findable.
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