”The ability of LLMs to produce “fluent nonsense”—plausible but logically flawed reasoning chains—can be more deceptive and damaging than an outright incorrect answer, as it projects a false aura of dependability. Sufficient auditing from domain experts is indispensable.
…the core issue…[is] the model’s lack of abstract reasoning capability.”
—C. Zhao, Z. Tan, P. Ma, D. Li, B. Jiang, Y. Wang, Y. Yang and H. Liu, Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage?
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.01191
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