Dossier
university researchers
Coverage of university researchers in the Nexus archive.
- LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they're false
Research reveals LLMs (large language models) tend to retain false information in their training data even when explicitly labeled as false, leading to 'belief implantation' and frequent hallucinations. The study involved generating documents with outrageous claims, such as Ed Sheeran winning an Olympic gold medal or Queen Elizabeth II authoring a programming textbook, to test this phenomenon.