The Simulacra

OK.... so I have been reading..

I get the idea that " a simulacrum is not a copy of the real, but becomes truth in its own right: the hyperreal".

And I understand that 'Where Plato saw two steps of reproduction – faithful and intentionally distorted (simulacrum) — Baudrillard sees four: (1) basic reflection of reality, (2) perversion of reality; (3) pretence of reality (where there is no model); and (4) simulacrum, which "bears no relation to any reality whatsoever"' (and sorry this is from Wiki)

Except... what is number (3) - p"retence of reality... where there is no model".  How does this fit in? Where and when?  Is anyone able to give me an answer here?


I shall read to try and get some semblance of understanding:

https://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/baudrillard-simulacra_and_simulation.pdf

www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/jameson.htm