I think i’ve only once flat out told one it was wrong about a specific assertion I quoted and it immediately was able to find its way to what I knew to be the correct claim.
I just wonder what would happen if i was in fact mistaken and I told it confidently it was wrong without elaborating


Yes, but they usually have a system prompt telling them to be super polite.
I’ve been using Qwen3.6 a lot lately to debug a shitty old game that doesn’t want to work in wine and during the thinking process it said more than once things like “The user is wrong, […]”, but at the end it always said something polite like “You are right to say that X, but it’s more correct to say that Y, …”.