Distortion field guide
Visual manipulation
Charts, images, or video altered or constructed to mislead.
How it enters the chain
Truncated axes, cropped frames, edited images, or AI-generated media enter the chain looking like documentation.
How to spot it
Check axes and baselines on charts, and look for the original unedited media. If the visual is the whole argument, verify the visual.
Specimens on record (9)
TS-3FF36C6D7 Oct 2026FinanceA client of a credit/funding service obtained approximately $100,000 of borrowing capacity within four weeks, evidenced by a $60,000 conditional preapproval screen and a Digital Federal Credit Union…TS-A6A73C9A29 Sept 2026GeneralA Phase 1 first-in-human safety trial of ER-100, a gene therapy that induces expression of the transcription factors OCT4, SOX2 and KLF4 in retinal cells, dosed its first participant in 2026, in…TS-1DED96F629 Sept 2026FinanceA Reuters report states that a draft Anthropic IPO prospectus it reviewed contains risk-factor language describing catastrophic or existential risks from advanced AI, and describes model behaviors…TS-8C9ABF7122 Sept 2026FinanceMohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, stated in an Al Jazeera interview that Qatar passed Iran's conditions for ending the war with the United States to Washington,…TS-E8B0E0E719 Sept 2026AIA hospital in China has opened, operated by artificial intelligence rather than human staff, using 14 AI physicians that perform approximately 3,000 patient consultations per day.TS-D3F181B418 Sept 2026FinanceTwo propositions. (1) Bitcoin's price had risen in the period shortly before 18 September 2026. (2) The account holder has personally generated significant trading profits and can replicate this for…TS-2EAE4EF810 Sept 2026GeneralA Babraham Institute team reported that transient (partial) expression of reprogramming factors in cultured human skin fibroblasts reversed several molecular and epigenetic markers of age while the…TS-3FB0BA7F24 Aug 2026AITourist volume in Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico has fallen sharply from its recent peak, to the point that beaches, streets and hotels are currently unoccupied, and the causes are unknown.TS-0E10E22720 Aug 2026AIA research group created a corpus of 8.3 billion persona records, called Persona 8B, as part of an infrastructure named MatrAIx, intended to let simulated users test AI systems and digital products…