Checking that a quote is in the page it cites

A quotation nobody verified is a quotation somebody invented.

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What it is

Models fabricate quotes. Not often, and not obviously — they produce something the review could plausibly have said, attached to a real URL. It is the single most damaging thing a report of this kind can contain, because it is the part a customer is most likely to forward.

So every quoted string is searched for in the text of the page it cites. A quote that is not found is not deleted — the finding survives, the quotation is demoted to a description, and the report says which happened. Three outcomes, not two: found, not found, and the page carried no text we could check.

How far it goes

Quotes shorter than 12 characters are not checkable and are not treated as quotes.

What it refuses. It does not print a quotation it could not find.

Performed by research/schema.py. This page names the functions that do it, and the build fails if any of them is renamed — marketing copy has no compiler, so we gave this page one.

The other eight

Reading every platform your trade is reviewed on The same complaint, on separate sites Counting, rather than asking a model how common a thing is Making sure it is your business, before anything else Saying where it looked and found nothing What moved since your last issue Weighting what was said recently Keeping what it saw, not just what it concluded

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