Frontier models trust published results too much, hampering autoresearch
menhguin · x · 2026-10-17
menhguin highlights an underrated limitation of frontier models for autoresearch: they take published results at face value and get stuck on them. Combined with roughly 10x more AI slop papers flooding literature, this makes automated research more annoying than it should be.
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