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BullshitBench measures whether AI models challenge nonsensical prompts instead of confidently answering them, created by Peter Gostev. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/petergpt/bullshit-benchmark · homepage · Python · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

59/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 13

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 190
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 8
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1836 stars · 73 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

BullshitBench is a benchmark dataset and evaluation harness that tests whether AI models detect and push back on nonsensical prompts rather than confidently answering them. It includes question sets across multiple domains, judge-based scoring, and a public leaderboard viewer with charts comparing model performance.

Use cases

  • evaluate whether an LLM challenges nonsensical prompts
  • compare AI models on sycophancy and pushback behavior
  • check if reasoning mode helps or hurts nonsense detection
  • find benchmark results for new LLM releases
  • visualize model detection rates across domains like finance and medical
  • build an LLM evaluation leaderboard

When to choose

  • you want to measure how honestly a model responds to invalid premises
  • you need domain-specific nonsense detection scores across software, finance, legal, medical, and physics
  • you want an existing leaderboard instead of building an eval from scratch

When to avoid

  • you need general-purpose capability benchmarks like MMLU or coding evals
  • you require formal statistical significance testing of model differences
  • you need a benchmark for tasks other than nonsense detection

Facets

dataset · maturity active

benchmarking llm-inference data-visualization analytics large-language-models artificial-intelligence data-visualization analytics python cross-platform llm-evaluation nonsense-detection sycophancy leaderboard model-evaluation hallucination-testing web-server

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