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The Flawed Reflection

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Christopher Michael
Sep 07, 2025
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When I first began studying the failures of AI systems, I approached them as I would any technical problem, looking for bugs to fix, parameters to adjust, or data to clean. But over time, I noticed that the ways that these systems failed weren't random. They were eerily, uncomfortably familiar.

Consider the phenomenon of AI "hallucination", when a large …

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