[Dilettante_]

There should be/does anyone know if there is a name for this? When you truth-check exactly once and then just blindly runaway after that?

Edit: Apparently in medicine there exists the concept of "premature closure", where the carer settles on a diagnosis early and stops considering other possibilities. Seems like a decent match?

[codetiger]

In LLM (AI) terms, we call the same effect as "models are hallucinating".

[Dilettante_]

I did understand that analogy from your first comment, because I have neither been living under a rock for the past few years nor suffered a heavy concussion minutes before making my reply.

That may seem needlessly harshly worded, but I wanted to very bluntly tell you to not expect/treat your fellow commenters like they are pants-on-head stupid.

My intention with GP was finding a good term for this failure to question oneself. That's not even strictly what hallucinations in the context of LLM mean in common discourse, which would be more along the lines of meaning both the (mechanism of) production of the wrong info in the first place, as well as (more implicitly and softly) that propensity to fail to question themselves. You would have understood that, if your model of my ability to understand had been more generous.

[codetiger]

Sorry if I sounded to you like assuming fellow commenters like that, but that was not my intention. As you were bringing up medical terms, I was trying to set the context clearly for my previous comment.

[Hackbraten]

Sounds like confirmation bias to me.

[odo1242]

Tunnel vision, probably

[codetiger]

"Tunnel vision" sounds too positive for this context.