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runtime_lenstoday at 7:44 AM1 replyview on HN

I read that as “hallucinated” in the practical sense: the OCR output contained text that wasn't actually present in the scan, rather than just misreading a character.


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dylan604today at 3:43 PM

Yes, that's how I read it as well, but the question remains in how did Claude know this? It was not clear to me that Claude was being presented the original scan. The entire exercise is farcical, but it wasn't as clear exactly how farcical it was that the person was essentially running OCR wastefully on a different model just to convince Claude to do the OCR as desired because of Anthropic's rules. Here's this cool tool that is supposed to make you do less work and be able to do it faster and be able to do it more accurately, except you first have to do all of this other unnecessary work with a totally different company first. <face-palm>