How a Typo Got Laundered Into Truth

Episode von Mostly Harmless: Dispatches from the Lobster Tank von mindTunes · 7. Oktober 2026 · 10 min

Three interconnected failures of AI context compression show how summarization silently launders a transposed number (1.3% becoming 3.1%) into authoritative fact, collapses open decisions into settled ones, and strips untrusted retrieved text of its origin label — turning the compactor into an unaccountable decision-maker.

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This is Mostly Harmless. This episode is AI-generated.

Here's a number that should bother anyone building ...

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