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The Eight-Phase Verified Infographic Pipeline

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About This MicroSim

A text-to-image model can draw a finished, fully labeled poster in one call. If the same call also invents the numbers, nobody can check them, and a wrong number is baked into pixels. The verified infographic pipeline fixes this by changing the order of operations: decide what is true first, draw it second.

This top-to-bottom flowchart shows the eight phases in order.

Phase Name in this book Name in the skill's guide Adds to the audit trail
1 Claim Planning Intake and Claim Planning 01-claim-plan.yaml
2 Source Discovery Source Discovery
3 Per-Claim Verification Verification and Classification 02-verification-report.md
4 Verification Report User Checkpoint (mandatory)
5 Layout Specification Lock Layout Specification 03-layout-spec.yaml
6 Verbatim Text Prompt Image Prompt Assembly 04-image-prompt.md
7 Image Generation (single call) Final Rendering poster.png
8 Rendered Image Audit Post-Render Audit sources.md

The colors carry the main idea:

  • Teal, inside the dashed band: phases 1 to 6 are text only. No image model is called.
  • Amber: phase 5 is the lock. After it, no wording or number is written again by hand.
  • Deep orange: phase 7 is the only image-model call.
  • Green: phase 8 audits the rendered image against the locked specification.
  • Dashed red arrow: a claim rejected in phase 3 never reaches the image. It is removed or replaced, which sends the work back to the claim plan.

The phase details follow the verified infographic guide in the microsim-generator skill. In that skill a poster that passes the audit is then always wrapped in an interactive overlay, which is the subject of Chapter 26.

How to Use

  1. Select Next to walk through the phases in order. Phases that have not been reached yet are dimmed.
  2. For each phase, read its one-sentence definition and watch the Audit trail list grow. The newest file is highlighted.
  3. Notice at which phase the first image file appears in the list.
  4. Click 3. Per-Claim Verification and find the dashed arrow that returns to phase 1.
  5. You can also click any box to jump straight to it. Keyboard users can press Tab to move between boxes and Enter to select one.

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Lesson Plan

Audience

Adult learners, educators, and instructional designers who want factual posters and infographics they can defend. No programming background is needed.

Learning Objective

Summarize the eight ordered phases that separate claim verification from image rendering. (Bloom's Taxonomy: Understand)

Duration

10 minutes

Prerequisites

  • Knows that a language model can state false things fluently (Chapter 2)
  • Has read the one-shot generation risk and baked-in text problem sections of Chapter 25

Activities

  1. Exploration (3 min): Step through all eight phases with Next. For each one, say whether it works on text or on pixels.
  2. Guided Practice (4 min): Group the eight phases under three headings of your own, such as "decide", "draw", and "check". Write one sentence for each heading.
  3. Assessment (3 min): Answer the questions below without looking.

Assessment

  • The learner lists the eight phases in order.
  • The learner states that phases 1 to 6 are text only and that phase 7 is the only image-model call.
  • The learner explains what happens to a claim that fails verification.
  • The learner explains why an audit is still needed after the wording has been locked.

Discussion Questions

  1. Why is it cheaper to fix a wrong number in phase 3 than in phase 8?
  2. The author must approve the verification report before any layout work begins. What could go wrong if that checkpoint were skipped?
  3. Every phase leaves a file behind. Who benefits from that audit trail after the poster is published?

References

  1. Text-to-image model - Wikipedia - Background on the image generators used in the single rendering phase.
  2. Hallucination (artificial intelligence) - Wikipedia - Describes fabricated output, the risk this pipeline is designed to remove.
  3. Fact-checking - Wikipedia - Overview of verifying claims against sources before and after publication.
  4. Flowcharts Syntax - Mermaid - Documentation for the flowchart syntax and the click interaction used in this MicroSim.