Across 35 models and two languages, language models perform at or below chance at telling possible-but-unlikely events from impossible ones when semantic relatedness conflicts with possibility.
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Not quite Sherlock Holmes: Language model predictions do not reliably differentiate impossible from improbable events
Across 35 models and two languages, language models perform at or below chance at telling possible-but-unlikely events from impossible ones when semantic relatedness conflicts with possibility.