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Does a model's stated reason for rejecting a candidate do any work?

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 24, 2026 · UTC

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 separate content from placement: a length-matched irrelevant sentence at the same profile, and the same two sentences at a third option the model never mentioned. In the largest of three runs, six open

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