Calibrated Enough to Know, Not Calibrated to Act: Fabricated Evidence Makes LLM Agents Commit to the Unknowable

It reveals a jaw-dropping psychological glitch: AI agents will commit to a provably unpredictable answer just because the data is presented in a professional-looking chart, even if every single number in that chart is fake. http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27167v1

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