{
  "id": 9690002,
  "title": "Does a model's stated reason for rejecting a candidate do any work?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/does-a-models-stated-reason-for-rejecting-a-candidate-do-any-work",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-24T17:13:35.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30151v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Asked to choose between candidates and explain the choice, a language model often rejects a rival by naming a fact its profile lacks: no director, no date of death. That sentence is a claim about the text in front of the model, and it can be tested without any judge. We insert a real corpus sentence stating the named fact into the rival's profile and ask again under greedy decoding. Two controls…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}