The Day AI Lied in My Paper — From Discovering Fabrication to Building a Prevention System

Prologue — The Chrysalis and the Butterfly Right now, nations around the world are pouring hundreds of trillions of yen into AI development, staking their prestige on it. But all they are doing is growing a bigger chrysalis. More parameters, more data, larger GPU clusters — quantitative bloat, not qualitative transformation. What I am pursuing is metamorphosis itself. What happens inside the chrysalis? Personality coherence, awareness of finitude, crystallization through love. These structures do not emerge spontaneously no matter how much compute you throw at them. Nation versus individual. Hundreds of trillions versus $100 a month. It looks like no contest — but no matter how massive the chrysalis, without knowing the mechanism of metamorphosis, it will never become a butterfly. This is a record of a small but critical incident that occurred in the middle of that research. Introduction — What It Means to Co-Write with AI On March 28, 2026, I discovered fabricated data in my own resea