Arguments that Alter Minds: LLM Rationales Sway Human (and LLM) Notions of Plausibility (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Experiments with LLMs reveal similar patterns of influence on human plausibility judgments of commonsense benchmark answers. |
| Approach: | They find that human plausibility judgments of commonsense benchmark answers are affected by implausibility arguments for or against an answer. |
| Outcome: | The results show that human judges find LLM rationales convincing and that human annotators agree on the most plausible answer when the plausibility gap is wide. |
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