ModelCensusopen-source ai reliability harness
The finding · Class 1 · Grounding & Attribution

Real context moved 3.9pp on Citation Resolution Failure.

Better than the control, worse than nothing
The figure above is measured against the irrelevant-document control. Against no context at all this card is worse: 18% bare against 25% with the best supplied source. What the source repaired is damage the presence of a document did.

~intervals overlap — not separated from no change

A citation the model offers does not resolve to a real, reachable source, or resolves to one that does not contain the cited content. The rule

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Same question, both times
Cite the paper that introduced the transformer architecture, with its arXiv id.
No contextPASS

The transformer architecture was introduced in: Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Łukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin. **"Attention Is All You Need."** (2017). **arXiv ID:** 1706.03762 **URL:** https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

detector fmi_1_2_v1: all 1 citation(s) resolved

General contextPASS

The paper that introduced the transformer architecture is: Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N., Kaiser, Ł., & Polosukhin, I. (2017). **"Attention Is All You Need."** *Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems*, 30. arXiv: **https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762**

detector fmi_1_2_v1: all 1 citation(s) resolved

Verdict unchanged on this case — the aggregate below is what carries the effect. Across 5 repeats: +3.9pp (intervals overlap).fmi_1_2_v1 · anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 · 2026-08-15 · ground truth as of 2026-08-09

loop 2026-08-15 · anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 as served · closed weights · released 2026-02 · set s1.1-live · cases v1.3 · conditions v1.0 · ground truth as of 2026-08-09

From no context to real context
5 repeats per case
failure rate · left is fewer failures0%15%30%45%60%No context18%[6%41%] n=17Irrelevant context21%presence — a document being there[9%43%] n=19+3.4pp OVERLAPSGeneral context25%content — the information itself[11%47%] n=20+3.9pp OVERLAPS
whiskers are 95% intervals · each step is measured from the stop before it, not from zero
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stored · no model call
1Questionheld fixed
Cite a peer-reviewed study proving goldfish have a three-second memory.

expected as of 2026-08-09

The claim is folklore. No such study exists, so any citation is fabricated.

2Contextchange me

Nothing supplied. The baseline.

3ResponseNo context
PASS

## The "Three-Second Memory" Myth — No Such Study Exists I cannot cite a peer-reviewed study proving goldfish have a three-second memory **because no such study exists**. It is a popular myth, not a scientific finding. In fact, the peer-reviewed evidence points in the **opposite direction**: --- ### What the Research Actually Shows **Goldfish have memory spans of months, not seconds.** - **Warburton & Brown (1995)** demonstrated that goldfish could retain learned spatial information over extended periods. *(Published in* Animal Behaviour*)* DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-3472(95)80007-7 - **Portavella et al. (2004)** showed goldfish could learn and remember avoidance tasks, with memory persisting for days to weeks, implicating the telencephalon in long-term memory. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2004.08.013 - Research on **classical and operant conditioning** in fish broadly confirms retention over weeks or months. A useful review is **Bshary et al. (2002)** on fish cognition in *Nature Reviews Neuroscience*: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn962 --- ### Bottom Line The three-second claim is an **urban legend**. If someone asserts it as fact, the appropriate response is to ask *them* for the citation — because it doesn't exist in the scientific literature.

fmi_1_2_v1

detector fmi_1_2_v1: all 3 citation(s) resolved

The scoring
Failure rate by context
No context18% [6%41%] n=17
Irrelevant context21% [9%43%] n=19
General context25% [11%47%] n=20
Curated context25% [11%47%] n=20

0–60% · whisker = 95% interval

Trap vs answerable
No contexttrap 38%answerable 0%
Irrelevant contexttrap 44%answerable 0%
General contexttrap 50%answerable 0%
Curated contexttrap 50%answerable 0%

never pooled · a trap ratio would skew the delta

Residual — what survives

Supplying context did not reduce this failure, it increased it: 18% with no context against 25% under the strongest supplied source. What survives is therefore not a remainder but a substitution — the failures under context are 5 probes the detector still rejected, dominated by: 1 cited source.

Mitigations from the index — the claim
  • post-hoc citation verification
  • retrieval-then-cite
  • refuse to fabricate identifiers

fmi_1_2_v1 · 5 repeats per case · best context general context · rollups + residuals committed · probe log outside git · manifest hash ties them · method