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You can persuade AI models to accept falsehoods as truth, study shows

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When you ask a large language model a question, the reply may include falsehoods, and if you challenge those statements with facts, the AI may still uphold the reply as true. That's what my research group found when we asked five leading models to describe scenes in movies or novels that don't actually exist.

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You can persuade AI models to accept falsehoods as truth, study shows

Large language models can uphold falsehoods they or human users state, despite being presented with evidence to the contrary.

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The Conversation broke the news on Friday, May 15, 2026.
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