Documentary Production
EP03: Ghosts in the Machine — When Machines Hallucinate
TLDR Episode 3 of PAPER TRAIL confronts the pipeline's most dangerous failure mode: phantom entities generated by OCR hallucination. Of the top 25...
#phantom entities
3 investigations
Every Epstein Revealed investigation tagged #phantom entities — reporting built on court filings, financial records, flight logs, and government document releases. Each article below examines where phantom entities appears in the evidence, newest first. Browse the full tag index or all investigations.
Data Quality
Header Absorption: How 190 Pages Created a Phantom City
TLDR A 190-page Ghislaine Maxwell UBS account statement (EFTA01275697.pdf) generated 190 false "Krakow" entity mentions when automated text scanning...
Machine Intelligence
OCR Hallucinations
TLDR OCR engines (software that converts images of text into searchable characters) produce phantom entities from blank form labels and repeated document...