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When Expert Disagreement Hurts: Prestige and Selectivity in LLM Decision Revision
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers found that language models often make worse decisions when revising based on expert disagreement, despite reversing answers more frequently.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building AI systems that incorporate human feedback or expert review into decision pipelines, especially in high-stakes domains.
- Watch out
- Reversal frequency is a poor indicator of accuracy improvement. Models respond to prestige cues like expert labels even when argument content is identical.
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