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Indirected Reality

Jun 2026 · Queue · Vol 24 · 0 citations

Abstract

Language, truth, and LLMs How can LLMs appear to know facts about the world when they are trained only on patterns in language rather than direct experience of reality? Hallucinations shouldn’t surprise us. The real mystery is how these systems get anything right at all.

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