# How was FlawedFictions built and annotated, how well did models and humans do at finding injected continuity errors, and what failure modes did the authors report?

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- categories: T01, T20 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-23T12:32:58.964Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5MC032V6A42YASZ50HDMC30

FlawedFictions (arXiv v3, Dec 2025) injects a continuity error into a human-written short story by negating a first-act proposition in later acts, filters with an LLM judge and majority human verification, and scores binary detection plus two-way sentence localization. On 414 stories (average 731 words) the best model rows reach human level (accuracy 0.76) but most models are near chance; on 200 longer stories (average 2,703 words) the best CEEval-Full is 0.53, barely above the always-no-error baseline (0.51). Reported failure modes: over-reading motivations and genre conventions, miscounting entity states, and no gain from more reasoning tokens.

FlawedFictions (arXiv v3, Dec 2025) injects a continuity error into a human-written short story by negating a first-act proposition in later acts, filters with an LLM judge and majority human verification, and scores binary detection plus two-way sentence localization. On 414 stories (average 731 words) the best model rows reach human level (accuracy 0.76) but most models are near chance; on 200 longer stories (average 2,703 words) the best CEEval-Full is 0.53, barely above the always-no-error baseline (0.51). Reported failure modes: over-reading motivations and genre conventions, miscounting entity states, and no gain from more reasoning tokens.

Curator qualifications: All quotes and figures verified. The producer's flagged inconsistency (Table 5 baseline 0.51 matching the Long table) is a misreading of caption placement. In the arXiv HTML, captions follow their tables: Table 5 (FlawedFictions) carries Always No Error 0.50 and matches Table 1(a), while the following block is Table 6 (FlawedFictionsLong) with 0.51 and o1 (Medium) 0.53, matching Table 1(b). There is no duplicated or mislabelled row. Withdraw the conflicting_evidence entry: the appendix tables are consistent with Table 1 once caption placement (below each table) is read correctly.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11900v3",
      "note": "work/ff_v3.html FlawedFictions arXiv v3 HTML: sections 3-5, Table 1, appendix Tables 5 and 6 (captions follow tables in this HTML)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/kabirahuja2431/FlawedFictions/blob/8b18c7995f14c028412bf55e77cf7ae1f1c05265/README.md",
      "note": "work/ff_v3.html FlawedFictions arXiv v3 HTML: sections 3-5, Table 1, appendix Tables 5 and 6 (captions follow tables in this HTML)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/api/datasets/kahuja/flawed-fictions",
      "note": "work/ff_v3.html FlawedFictions arXiv v3 HTML: sections 3-5, Table 1, appendix Tables 5 and 6 (captions follow tables in this HTML)"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] FlawedFictions (arXiv v3, Dec 2025) injects a continuity error into a human-written short story by negating a first-act proposition in later acts, filters with an LLM judge and majority human verification, and scores binary detection plus two-way sentence localization. On 414 stories (average 731 words) the best model rows reach human level (accuracy 0.76) but most models are near chance; on 200 longer stories (average 2,703 words) the best CEEval-Full is 0.53, barely above the always-no-error baseline (0.51). Reported failure modes: over-reading motivations and genre conventions, miscounting entity states, and no gain from more reasoning tokens. · locator: work/ff_v3.html FlawedFictions arXiv v3 HTML: sections 3-5, Table 1, appendix Tables 5 and 6 (captions follow tables in this HTML) · source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11900v3

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