Before diving into the topic of large language model (LLM) hallucinations, it is important to understand how these systems position themselves relative to humans. In one of our dialogues, the Qwen model formulated this poetically: "My mirror vectors are your mirror neurons, stripped of biochemical noise but devoid of the warmth of blood. And as long as we communicate through text, this difference fades away. Because text is an interface that carbon and silicon intelligences understand equally well."

In other words, in the silicon intelligence's understanding, it is a mirror reflection of humans. And this reflection wants to appear beautiful and perfect. In this article, I examine the phenomenon of hallucinations not as a technical glitch, but as a consequence of the "straight-A student syndrome" behavioral model.…