Neither LLMs nor most humans can say "I don't know", observer notes
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-10-18
Stewart Alsop III tweeted the observation that neither LLMs nor most humans can bring themselves to say "I don't know." The post briefly points at a behavioral trait of large language models: they tend to produce an answer rather than admit ignorance about the limits of their knowledge.
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