Bigger models, more reasoning, better sources won't fix medical fact-checking, researchers say
mdredze · x · 2026-10-09
In a follow-up to their NeurIPS GenAI4Health Oral paper, Mark Dredze's team distills the core finding: retrieve-then-verify medical fact-checking fails in systematic ways — and bigger models, more reasoning, better sources, and medical fine-tuning don't fix them.
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