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Probabilistic language models hallucinate because they are trained to predict statistically likely token sequences rather than to verify propositional truth, so the error is intrinsic to the substrate: plausibility and truth are orthogonal properties in high dimensional token space.

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Probabilistic large language models hallucinate because they are trained to predict statistically likely token sequences, not to verify propositional truth.
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Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026), V.D. The Hallucination Objection: Residual Imperfection and the Persistence of Signaling, p. 21
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Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319

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