>IF you did this SAME experiment with a human and had a human read an ENTIRE document and then reproduce said document with edits. The DOCUMENT would DEGRADE even more.

Except that isn't how humans edit documents, and it isn't how LLMs work either.

When a human edits a document, they don't typically "reproduce said document with edits", which I assume you mean read the document and reproduce it from memory. They have the document, either physically printed out, or in a word processor. To make edits they either cross-out and write in the edit, or in a word processor just delete the text and replace it with something better. There's no need to keep the entire document in a human's memory for them to reproduce it from memory.

The same goes for the LLM, it has access to the original document at all times. It can remove sections and replace them.

But the LLM hallucinates.

And if you give a document to a human high on LSD to edit, you might get some weird edits back.