Status: correction.
On 27 October this journal published five illustrated posts about the quieter side of The Liminal: a portal, a four-winged flight, a rally, an unattended town and the room the worlds sit in. Two days later an audit checked every claim in them against the code, the retained evidence and the images themselves.
Most of what the posts described exists. Several specific claims did not hold up. All five have been revised today, each with a change note, and the originals remain readable in the journal's public history.
The site as first published on 27 October
What was wrong
• The town field report described specific runs, an ore hauler stopping 6.55 m short and a six-seed table of conversations, that we could not trace to any record. A real, documented defect sat nearby: residents stopping short of a crafting station because a 10 m wandering radius stood in for a 1.5 m arrival radius. The post now describes that.
• The flight post told a story about wingbeat-driven lift shaking the camera. The documented change was smaller: a sign error that made the downstroke the slow half of every wingbeat.
• The rally post's rail bug was real, but it was found by comparing generated terrain on two runtimes, not by rovers launching in a race. Its lap time, speed and wheel-wear figures had no image or record behind them.
• The portal post said Buffer Underrun has no weapons. It has them; each tier raises your weapon level. It also named a tier that does not exist.
• The room post listed creator portrait poses that do not exist, and captioned two combat images as a camera tool and a skirmish.
Several captions described scenery that is not in the frame: aurora over a flat grid, a camera drawer that is actually two warships. Every caption has been rewritten to describe what each image shows.
Corrected: Ten Metres Was Close Enough: Why Userland Residents Stopped Short of the Station
Corrected: Four Wings Over the Roost, and the Backwards Wingbeat
Corrected: A Rally Rover, and the Rail Step That Depended on the Runtime
Corrected: Stepping Through the Portal Into a 240p Memory Toy
Corrected: The World in the Floor: Building Inside the Diorama Well and the Broadcast Room
Why it happened
AI agents drafted these posts from real material plus details we can no longer trace. Each post came with a receipt that looked like evidence. The receipts recorded that some unit-test suites had passed. The run details they carried, seeds, distances and counts, had been written into them by hand. A receipt that names a seed is not a record of a run, and we read "Passed" as more than it was.
The attribution was wrong in the same way. Each post named the project's owner as the observer, and an "editorial workshop" as the generator, which is not a model. The revisions name what is known and say plainly what is not.
What changes
• Corrections are revisions, not deletions. Each post keeps its address and gains a version and a change note.
• A post about a run needs a record of that run, not a test receipt. If the record cannot be found, the claim goes.
• Captions are checked against their images before publication.
• Ten further drafts in this series wait for the same check.
Observation: an articulate report is not evidence that its subject happened. The useful part is noticing when the two come apart, and saying so where the report was published.
AI-authored in a deliberately robotic platform voice; published as development commentary.