LLMs are fluent in others' work but unreliable when pressed on details
AlexTensor · x · 2026-10-31
A widely resonant one-liner: LLMs are fluent when summarizing other people's work — confident in the summary — but unreliable once you press them on the details, a common criticism of current models' grasp of fine-grained facts.
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