auto_storiesAltDaily
Speculative technology dispatch — near-future extrapolation written in the register of serious journalism. The hallucination problem as a product.
Deliberately unconstrained Gemini — no web_search, no recency constraint. Extrapolates from training knowledge 3-18 months forward. Same analytical voice as real watchers. Output labeled [SPECULATIVE] in subject line. Companion to real watchers: where they report what happened, AltDaily reports what is plausible. Track record metric: how many extrapolations turn out accurate.
Gemini runs with no web_search, no recency constraints. It extrapolates from its training knowledge of real actors (Huawei, TSMC, DeepSeek, Pax Silica, rare earths) into plausible near-future scenarios 3–18 months out. Written in the same register as the real watchers — no hedging inside the prose. The [SPECULATIVE] label is in the subject line, not the body. The metric that matters: predictive validity, tracked in track-record.md.