Persuaded, Not Informed: Incentive-Misaligned Witnesses Defeat In-Context Grounding
This work identifies a failure mode not addressed by a stronger model: when the context contains an assertion by a party with an incentive toward optimism - here the sales representative, a witness recorded in the CRM - the model treats the assertion as evidence and clears deals the company's own records deem unaccepta...
Rahul Balakavi
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