## [Cats are confused by laser pointers and LLMs are confused by cats 🐈](https://keebler.health/cats-are-confused-by-laser-pointers-and-llms-are-confused-by-cats-%f0%9f%90%88/)

by [quinonez](https://keebler.health/author/quinonez/ "Posts by quinonez") \| Jul 8, 2025 \| [Research](https://keebler.health/category/research/)

🐈 Cats are confused by laser pointers and LLMs are confused by cats 🐈 We had to share this paper where researchers tested how LLMs responded to irrelevant facts embedded in prompts, for example inserting random cat trivia into math problems. They found that LLMs were...