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BackstopJS, at 7.2k stars, handles rendering noise with exactly four numeric config knobs — misMatchThreshold, requireSameDimensions, ignoreAntialiasing, usePreciseMatching — which is still just fighting font-rendering jitter with pixel-level tolerance. The project that actually wires a VLM/LLM into the visual-regression judgment loop is a 23-star repo called vlmkit, whose own internal benchmark notes state outright that one model hallucinates red into red. Putting these two side by side answers, concretely, what semantic visual regression actually solves — and what new problems it introduces.