A deterministic verification script found that 2 out of 7 quotes attributed to 'The Book of Elon' could not be located verbatim in the actual source text. The synthesis LLM had paraphrased, fabricated, or mis-cited them despite being prompted to grep-verify its own output. This illustrates a concrete failure rate for AI quote extraction even when the underlying retrieval is sound.
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