The key insight: hallucinations are not bugs, but artifacts of compression. Like Xerox photocopiers that silently replaced digits in floorplans to save memory, LLMs can introduce subtle distortions. Because the output still looks right, we may not notice what has been lost or changed.
The more they’re used to generate content, the more the web becomes a blurrier copy of itself.
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