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Transparency & Trust

How Tank prevents hallucinated citations and ensures factual integrity

Last-read trust metrics

Verification Pipeline

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Citation Resolver

Every [ref: N] tag is checked against configured resolvers (CrossRef, OpenAlex, PubMed, and any patent office that is actually configured). Green = resolved. Amber = grace. Red = fabricated. Unconfigured offices stay empty — this is not a live USPTO screen.

2

Content Gates

Before any content surfaces to the user, it passes through authenticity gates that check for known hallucination patterns and unverified claims.

3

Honest-State Banners

When a data source is degraded or unavailable, Tank surfaces an honest banner with estimated restore time — never silently serves stale data.

4

Disagreement Confidence

Stored debates are capped when disagreement exceeds threshold. The confidence metric is visible on this run, preventing artificial consensus.

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Export Blocking

PDF exports and email digests are blocked if any citation resolves red or >5% resolve amber. No unverified content leaves the platform.

Why This Matters

Columbia University's May 2026 study found LLM-fabricated citations in published papers rose 12× in three years. Stanford HAI found ChatGPT-4 hallucinated 58% of case-law citations. Tank's architecture makes fabricated citations a blocking error, not a silent failure.