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Phantom Human-in-the-Loop

https://cogniswitch.ai/concepts/phantom-human-in-the-loop

COINED by CogniSwitch. Anti-pattern: human oversight is nominally present in an AI pipeline but structurally impossible at production throughput, opacity, or attention scale. The human exists on paper; the review does not happen in practice.

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Phantom HITLphantom human in the loop

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