Draft:Chavda's Paradox

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Chavda's paradox proposes that a lie is merely a fact awaiting citation.

For any proposition P, an AI can produce a reference R asserting P. The existence of R satisfies the verification rule “P is supported if and only if some reference to P exists.” Therefore every P an AI is willing to cite becomes “supported.” And since an AI is willing to cite essentially anything, essentially everything becomes “supported” .

There are 4 main steps to this

Fabrication - Ask an AI about prime-gaps and in order to be helpful it cites Vaidya, R. (1911)
Publication - Some content farm picks this along the way and publishes it. It now carries the authority of having being moderated by a human.
Laundering - The next time you ask a model it will answer with more confidence. This is because it now appears as independent source. Confidence is in the citation not in the truth. The model will likely even correct a skeptical user: No, Vaidya is a documented if minor figure.
Loop/closure - A real end user researching tries to verify Vaidya when looking up the subject matter, finds the reference and satisfied that he exists, mentions him in a real paper.

Draft:Chavda's Paradox

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