In his 1948 paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", C. E. Shannon put aside the issue of the meaning of what is communicated: "These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem." That is, Shannon's "information" is separated from content and hence also from truth. The irrelevance of content has continued: Page Rank, the original core of Google's search engine, was not concerned about the content (or the truth of the contents) of a given web page, but only about how often other web pages linked to it. And today, Large Language Models also disregard content and truth in favor of the probabilistic links between words in their datasets. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 8 February 2026)