Truthfulness Color Indicator Toggle for Comet Add-In/Perplexity Sources

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Mon, 02 Mar 2026 04:42:40 +0000
Feature Requests

Feature Request

A Real-time Narrative Revelation (RNR) indicator to promote the most advanced truth and systemic stability, e. g. via a user-selectable browser add-in/toggle that automatically adds a deep AI verification result to every statement, e. g. in the form of a colored icon (e.g. green for 100% true fact, yellow for not sure, red for probable narrative (speculation, manipulation, questionable claim etc.) - preferably 7 - 9 colors for meaningful granularity.

Problem Statement

THE CHALLENGE: NARRATIVE ENTROPY

In technical systems, stability is maintained through high signal-to-noise ratios. In the current digital information architecture, “Narratives” (emotional/persuasive framing) have become the noise that drowns out the signal (objective logic and data). This entropy (narrative overheating) leads to social fragmentation, loss of trust in institutions and AI, and a crisis in the perception of justice and what is real.

Proposed Solution

RNR is envisioned as a “Logic-Auditor”—a non-partisan, browser-native utility (integrated e. g. into Comet and Perplexity) that deconstructs the structural mechanics of information in real-time. It is not a tool for censorship, but a utility for signal clarification that (1) deconstructs manipulation in real-time, allowing the user to see the structural “X-ray” of the information they consume; and (2) restores the priority of facts over provocation. It is designed to foster the building of new infrastructures for honesty.

Architectural Pillars

Structural Deconstruction: Instead of judging “Truth,” the system identifies the mechanics of the message. It highlights rhetorical fallacies (e.g., Ad Hominem, False Dilemma) and emotional priming.

Signal Clarification: It provides a “Neutralizer” view, stripping away inflammatory adjectives to leave only the core verifiable data points.

Causal Verification: It maps the logical flow of arguments. When a narrative lacks historical or technical causality, the RNR identifies the “Logical Gap.”

Technical Feasibility (Symbolic-Neural Hybrid)

Neural Processing: Utilizes Large Language Models (LLMs) to parse linguistic nuance and intent.

Symbolic Validation: Passes the parsed structure to a deterministic logic engine to verify consistency and causal integrity.

Privacy-First: Designed for local, on-device execution (browser-computing) to ensure user context remains private.

THE STRATEGIC IMPACT

System Stability: By empowering users to see the “skeleton” of a story, we reduce the volatility of public discourse—a fundamental principle and bedrock of credibility, peace and trust.

AI Stewardship: Positions Perplexity as the pioneer of “Responsible AI 2.0”—where the AI does not just provide answers, but protects the user’s cognitive autonomy.

Objective Justice: Serves as a prototype for a future where information integrity is a universal, reliable service.

API Impact

improves chat completion quality, search objectivity, public credibility of AI

not related to a specific model

Would this require new API parameters or changes to existing ones? I don’t know.

Alternatives Considered

No such approach seems to exist yet, anywhere.

Additional Context - The Vision:

The goal of this “Logic-Engine” is to become a standard safeguard for the next generation, ensuring that the intelligent youth of the present and future inherits a digital environment and world governed by facts and logic rather than by the most persuasive narratives.

In engineering and genuine science, as in society, credibility is built on the pillars of stability and transparency. If this vision aligns with your path for Responsible AI I trust Perplexity to act as the steward of this logic for the benefit of mankind; and that the intelligent Perplexity team will define and implement a great tool to pioneer this “game changing” way of consistent self-investigating AI integrity. Doing this successfully would gain global public acclaim and make Perplexity the clear AI content credibility leader.