Score how organic unattributed signals look
assess_anonymous_authenticityAssess unattributed sentiment signals for organic consensus, diversity, volume, and recency, flagging single-source concentration and near-uniform praise as statistically unusual for human review.
Instructions
Scores how organic a corpus of UNATTRIBUTED, scraped sentiment signals (crawled mentions, imported reviews with no verifiable identity, aggregator feeds) looks, weighing a positive composite of consensus/diversity/volume/recency against a heuristic penalty for two specific, cheap manipulation patterns: evidence concentrated in a single source, and suspiciously uniform sentiment (near-maximal with near-zero variance -- the fingerprint of copy-pasted or purchased praise). This is NOT a fraud or astroturf detector: it cannot show that sentiment is fabricated or that any reviewer is fake, and a campaign that varies its wording/sentiment and spreads across several sources isn't caught by these two checks. Treat a low score as 'looks statistically unusual in a specific way worth a human look', not as a fraud finding. Use this for reviews/mentions/buzz with no identity behind them. For signals from known, identified contributors, use score_trust_identified instead.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| now | Yes | ISO 'now' timestamp recency decay is computed against. Pass a fixed value for determinism. | |
| config | No | Partial override merged over the library's illustrative EXAMPLE_ANONYMOUS_CONFIG -- omit to use the example config as-is. | |
| signals | Yes | The unattributed signals to assess. May be empty. |