What's in a Name? Morphological Shortcuts by LLMs in Pharmacology

In three linesLLMs rely excessively on morphological affixes to reason about drugs, generating plausible clinical content for fictitious names (e.g., wugcillin). A study across 653 drugs shows models induce drug meaning primarily via affixes without explicit indication, creating a safety risk in medical domains.

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