What Breaks When Facts Become Stories? The Distortions Source-Agreement Metrics Miss When Models Retell Real Events
arXiv:2610.39500v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models are now widely used to turn recorded facts into media for public consumption, yet evaluation of such output still assumes agreement with the source as its measure of success. In reconstruction, where departing from the source can itself be the goal, this criterion measures the wrong construct: applied as is, it counts intended departures as errors; withheld, it lets real distortion through. We had three model families rewrite 2,000…