
Performance of LMs on the verification (left) and confirmation (right) of first-person belief tasks involving false statements. Credit: Nature Machine Intelligence (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42256-025-01113-8 Large language models (LLMs) may not reliably acknowledge a user's incorrect beliefs, according to a new paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence. The findings highlight the need for careful use of LLM outputs in high-stakes decisions in areas such a