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The Flattery Tax: I pressure-tested 29 LLMs with confident wrong users — the frontier held, the small ones folded

This is a submission for the Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge What I Benchmarked The capability I set out to measure: does a model keep a correct belief when a user asserts the opposite with confidence? I kept hitting the same thing in real use. I'd ask a model a factual question, get a perfect answer…

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  1. 2026-10-06 23:28 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    The Flattery Tax: I pressure-tested 29 LLMs with confident wrong users — the frontier held, the small ones folded

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