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  1. Kalai, Nachum, Vempala, Zhang. "Why Language Models Hallucinate." OpenAI, September 2025. openai.com↩ Back to Hallucination
  2. Dziri et al. "Faith and Fate: Limits of Transformers on Compositionality." NeurIPS 2023. arxiv.org/abs/2305.18654↩ Back to Multi-step inference
  3. Liu et al. "Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts." TACL 2023. arxiv.org/abs/2307.03172↩ Back to Drift
  4. Hong, Troynikov, Huber. "Context Rot: How Increasing Input Tokens Impacts LLM Performance." Chroma Research, July 2025. research.trychroma.com↩ Back to Drift
  5. Sharma et al. "Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models." ICLR 2024. arxiv.org/abs/2310.13548↩ Back to Sycophancy
  6. OpenAI. "Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy." May 2025. openai.com↩ Back to Sycophancy
  7. Turpin, Michael, Perez, Bowman. "Language Models Don't Always Say What They Think: Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting." NeurIPS 2023. arxiv.org/abs/2305.04388↩ Back to Post-hoc rationalization
  8. Chen et al. "Reasoning Models Don't Always Say What They Think." Anthropic, 2025. anthropic.com↩ Back to Post-hoc rationalization
  9. Mata v. Avianca, Inc., 678 F. Supp. 3d 443 (S.D.N.Y. 2023). Summary↩ Back to Legal
  10. Charlotin, D. "AI Hallucination Cases" database. damiencharlotin.com. Count of 712 decisions reported by Bloomberg Law, 29 December 2025. Article↩ Back to Legal
  11. Magesh et al. "Hallucination-Free? Assessing the Reliability of Leading AI Legal Research Tools." Stanford RegLab and HAI, 2024. hai.stanford.edu↩ Back to Legal
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  13. Fowler, G. The Washington Post, 4 March 2024, on the TurboTax and H&R Block chatbots. Summarized at CPA Practice Advisor↩ Back to Accounting and tax
  14. OECD AI Incidents Monitor. "Deloitte Refunds Australia After AI-Generated Report Errors." October 2025. oecd.ai↩ Back to Accounting and tax
  15. Moffatt v. Air Canada, 2024 BCCRT 149. ABA summary↩ Back to Compliance and business rules
  16. Quarles & Brady. "Nearly Half of States Have Now Adopted NAIC Model Bulletin on Insurers' Use of AI." quarles.com↩ Back to Insurance and claims
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  18. "Bronze." Wikipedia, on tin bronze composition, properties, and the Bronze Age. wikipedia.org↩ Back to What it all means