We have plenty of observable evidence that the output of these detection models correponds to real ink residue, at least on one of the scrolls where the distinc

We have plenty of observable evidence that the output of these detection models correponds to real ink residue, at least on one of the scrolls where the distinct texture is most obvious [0]. The models definitely aren't making things up out of pure noise. And if they did, then it almost certainly wouldn't come out as identifiable Greek letters, since these models are strictly looking at local patches of texture to identify the presence or absence of ink. Again, these aren't just black boxes spitting out long passages of Greek text, everything past the initial ink detection is still done by hand. [0] https://scrollprize.org/firstletters#caseys-crackle-pattern https://scrollprize.org/firstletters#caseys-crackle-pattern