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Justin Bronder

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Preprint Aug 2026

Does a Tool Result Carry More Authority Than Plain Text? Three Prospective Studies of False-Claim Adoption in a Synthetic Assignment Task with Claude Opus 5

Language-model systems increasingly read from stores they also write to, so a claim that was merely written earlier can return looking retrieved. We tested whether the message package carrying an unsupported assignment changes which answer a model gives in a synthetic lookup task. Claude Opus 5 selected a color code fo...

Justin Bronder · 1 citation

#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Why Didn't It Check? Unsupported Final Claims and Their Repair in Two Tool-Equipped Language Models

This work separates this failure into two precisely defined quantities: occurrence, how often the model makes an unsupported claim on its own, measured from the visible evidence and final claim without using the hidden correct answer; and conditional repair, how often those same naturally occurring unsupported claims a...

Justin Bronder · 0 citations