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Knowing the Form, Not the Function: Automatically Auditing Answer–Authority Decoupling in Legal Benchmarks
arXiv:2608.02621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Legal benchmarks typically score final answers even when models also state legal authority. We test whether answer correctness can serve as a proxy for authority grounding. Under ordinary reasoning prompts that did not request statutory citations, four LLMs spontaneously