Eroding the Truth-Default: A Causal Analysis of Human Susceptibility to Foundation Model Hallucinations and Disinformation in the Wild

arXiv:2601.22871 · cs.CY, cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.HC · Submitted 2026-01-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.CY, cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.HC

Submitted: 2026-01-30

Updated: 2026-10-29

Terminology

• Foundation Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adversarial Training — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Foundation Models (FMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Hallucination — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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