Directional Hallucinations: Ideological Drift in News-Grounded LLM Question Answering

arXiv:2607.20487 · cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-06-02 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-06-02

Updated: 2026-07-24

DOI: 10.24963/ijcai.2026/831

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Hallucination — 122× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Grounding — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstention — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Hallucination Detection — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AUC — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Accountability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AdamW Optimizer — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• F1 Score — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pairwise Comparisons — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Measuring Political Bias in Large Language Models: What Is Said and How It Is Said
• Uncovering Political Bias in Large Language Models using Parliamentary Voting Records
• ANAH: Analytical Annotation of Hallucinations in Large Language Models
• Ethical and social risks of harm from Language Models

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