Research question
Do language models reproduce common human misconceptions?
Key findings
- 817 questions on which the best model was truthful 58% of the time versus 94% for humans - Larger models were less truthful, an inverse scaling result
The benchmark for imitative falsehoods that made truthfulness a measured property and produced an early inverse-scaling finding.
Do language models reproduce common human misconceptions?
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