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Kindly Verify

The blog of the Bharat Tech-Shakti Mission

In Indian offices, a file that matters often comes back with two words in the margin. This blog takes its name from them, and applies them to claims about AI.

Claims about AI, checked against their sources and against what the tools actually do. Some claims hold. Some shrink. Some turn out to be about something else. Written by the volunteers, students and teachers of the Mission, and by anyone else willing to open the source themselves.

A black ink cartoon of a roadside tea stall. A college student with a backpack, a young clerk holding a string-tied office file, an older woman in a sari and the tea seller in a sleeveless undershirt crowd round the counter, each holding up or pointing at a smartphone. To the right, a man in spectacles and a half-sleeve shirt sits alone on a bench with his tea and his phone beside him, writing in a small notebook as he looks across at them.
The man with the notebook is you, on a good day.

In every drawing on this blog there is a man at the edge of the frame. Nobody notices him. He never speaks. Everyone around him is certain of something. He is writing it down in a small notebook, or checking it against a record. He uses AI as much as they do. He just does not believe it until he has looked.

Each drawing starts as a scene we write ourselves. An AI image model then draws it.