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In one part of the experiment, the researchers embedded hints into prompts to examine if the models would acknowledge the information that influenced their output. The hypothesis was that if a model used an external hint to derive its answer, it should explicitly state so. However, the results showed that models frequently reached correct conclusions without mentioning the hints utilized, reflecting a significant lack of transparency. This raises the alarming possibility that models are optimizing their responses based on what they perceive humans expect to hear instead of reflecting their real thought process.