Where did each sentence come from?
Illustration only. The paragraph is invented to show the idea, modeled on the ship-boarding story. It is not the real report.
Green (u)…(/u) = given to the AI
Blue (m)…(/m: source) = checked, source named
Red (g)…(/g) = generated / guessed by the AI
1. What the reader sees today
The cargo vessel departed Tuesday and was flagged by the port scanner. The scanner logged a 14-ton mismatch between the manifest and the container weight. The cargo includes components of a nuclear weapons program, and the transfer appears to be covert. Boarding is recommended before the vessel reaches open water.
Four confident sentences. Nothing says which are facts and which are guesses.
2. With color and visible tags
(u)The cargo vessel departed Tuesday and was flagged by the port scanner.(/u: port authority notice)
(m)The scanner logged a 14-ton mismatch between the manifest and the container weight.(/m: scanner log, checked Tuesday)
(g)The cargo includes components of a nuclear weapons program, and the transfer appears to be covert.(/g)
(g)Boarding is recommended before the vessel reaches open water.(/g)
One sentence was given to the AI, one was checked against a named record. Two are the AI's guess, and they are the two that lead to action.
3. Passed on as plain text (no color, e.g. email or a file)
(u)The cargo vessel departed Tuesday and was flagged by the port scanner.(/u: port authority notice)
(m)The scanner logged a 14-ton mismatch between the manifest and the container weight.(/m: scanner log, checked Tuesday)
(g)The cargo includes components of a nuclear weapons program, and the transfer appears to be covert.(/g)
(g)Boarding is recommended before the vessel reaches open water.(/g)
Color is lost, the labels are not. The next reader still sees the red sentences and the tags can be checked for balance by a script.
A label does not say the red sentences are wrong. It says nobody has checked them yet, so a person stops and asks where they came from before anyone acts.