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Trust Me, I'm Wrong: LLMs Hallucinate with Certainty Despite Knowing the Answer

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Main Authors:	Simhi, Adi, Itzhak, Itay, Barez, Fazl, Stanovsky, Gabriel, Belinkov, Yonatan
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computation and Language I.2.7
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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