LLMs exhibit systematic failures in obeying expressed certainty in retrieved contexts, but a combination of prior reminders, certainty recalibration, and context simplification reduces obedience errors by 25%.
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Can LLMs Take Retrieved Information with a Grain of Salt?
LLMs exhibit systematic failures in obeying expressed certainty in retrieved contexts, but a combination of prior reminders, certainty recalibration, and context simplification reduces obedience errors by 25%.