A deterministic verification script found that 4 out of 5 quotes on a synthesis page about Robert Harris's Imperium could not be matched verbatim against the source text. The script explicitly does not trust the synthesis LLM's own grep verification, treating self-checked quotes as unreliable. This isn't a one-off hallucination — it's a systematic failure mode in LLM-mediated knowledge pipelines.
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