@barubary @randomgeek Yep. See https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/6/4594482/xerox-copiers-randomly-replacing-numbers-in-documents

Full account of #Xerox copiers mangling numbers here: https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning

They used the #JBIG2 image format’s lossy “pattern matching & substitution” method that substitutes previously-encoded characters if they look enough like the one currently being encoded.

This is a great analogy to how #LLM-based “#AI” works.