Challenge: Large Language Models (LLMs) are easily misled by untruthful contexts provided by users or knowledge augmentation tools, leading to hallucinations.
Approach: They propose a lightweight method to adaptively recognize and mask untruthful context from the inputs and a new evaluation metric to further study the LLMs’ ability to accept truthful information and resist untrusted information.
Outcome: The proposed method can detect and mask untruthful context from the inputs and significantly improve the quality of LLMs’ responses when presented with misleading information.

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