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Miscalibration

over-confidence in topics where objective answers are lacking, as well as in areas where their inherent limitations should caution against LLMs’ uncertainty (e.g. not as accurate as experts)... ack of awareness regarding their outdated knowledge base about the question, leading to confident yet erroneous response

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AI Risk3. Misinformation3.1 > False or misleading information2 - Post-deployment

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Domain3. MisinformationThe broad risk area this belongs to.

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Domain3. Misinformation
Subdomain3.1 > False or misleading information
Entity2 - AI
Intent2 - Unintentional
Timing2 - Post-deployment
CategoryReliability
SubcategoryMiscalibration

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