DECON

An LLM asked to verify itself will confirm what it already said.

When you ask an LLM to verify its own output, it confirms what it already said. Single-model pipelines share blind spots. Hallucinations are syntactically indistinguishable from accurate outputs — and confidence scores don't help. The only way to surface fabrication is to challenge claims externally with independent evidence.

A 6-stage claim verification pipeline grounded in Popperian falsificationism. Extracts claims, subjects each to adversarial disconfirmation under epistemic isolation using a separate model family, verifies citations against external academic databases, reconciles findings with tiered evidence quality, and generates a self-contained analysis report — stress-testing what survives scrutiny rather than confirming what sounds right.