A little bit of wugology to test LLM pharmacology (linguistics meets medicine?)
Check out @kaijie-mo.bsky.social’s tour de force effort in leading this project from a casual idea thrown around during a chat to a proper manuscript!
Kanishka Misra
“Dimicillin” isn’t real. We made it up. Yet many LLMs still call it an antibiotic.
Across 9 models and 653 drugs, we find that drug-name affixes alone can drive pharmacological reasoning. Models often rely on morphology over facts.
We trace this shortcut from behavior to mechanism. 🧵
