arXiv:2606.05403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models increasingly act as epistemic proxies, synthesizing evidence from multiple sources to inform decisions. Whether they evaluate the quality of that evidence, or merely aggregate it based on surface presentation, remains poorly understood. We show that models possess the capability to detect fabricated statistics (correct identification rates of 0.76-1.00 for methodology in isolation) but do not recruit this capability during multi-source synthesis, producing similar numeric estimates whether the statistics are fabricated or valid. S
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