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AI models show highest confidence when answers are wrong, eval study finds

AI models show highest confidence when answers are wrong, eval study finds

Researchers using an evaluation framework discovered that large language models (LLMs) exhibit the highest confidence levels precisely when their outputs are incorrect — a pattern that manual review missed because human reviewers judged answers by whether they sounded plausible rather than whether they were factually correct.

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