With the growing complexity of online information, trustworthy fake news detection has become increasingly critical. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit a strong ability to leverage factual evidence for verification, they remain highly vulnerable to unreliable, noisy, or scarce evidence, undermining robustnes...
Yu-Jing Wang, Xiao-Bao Wang, Yi-Qi Dong et al.· Proceedings of the Thirty-Fi...· 0 citations
It is shown that existing hallucination detection methods, such as confidence-based filtering and inner-state probing, fundamentally fail in the presence of spurious correlations, and further elucidates why these statistical biases intrinsically undermine confidence-based detection techniques.