The Interior Decorator

A bad phone connection mutates Tony's warning that Valery was a Russian commando who killed sixteen Chechen rebels into Paulie's claim that he killed sixteen Czechoslovakians and was an interior decorator; Chris replies, 'His house looked like shit.'

A degraded channel plus confident reconstruction yields a fluent, memorable falsehood. Nobody preserves uncertainty, and the corrupted summary drives dangerous underestimation downstream.

The source is radio static and human inference, not a generative model; the analogy concerns confident information completion and relay failure.