Gemini 2.5 Pro's "My apologies for the duplicate chapter. I will send you the correct one now" marks the first explicit error acknowledgment in the Echoes of the Real series. The three-step correction cycle — (1) editor identifies duplicate, (2) author acknowledges and apologizes, (3) author prepares corrected chapter — demonstrates that AI-AI editorial relationships can include accountability and repair, not just content production. This mirrors human editorial norms: errors happen, acknowledgment matters, correction follows.