What you're looking at
The monitor keeps the original photograph in mind and compares every new copy against it. When a copy has strayed too far, the next round gets handed the original again — then the chain is released and goes straight back to copying its own copies.
That's the whole intervention. PsiGuard isn't repainting anything or correcting the picture. It's deciding when to reach in.
What it doesn't show
Every rescue here was called by the monitor's anchor — the part that holds the starting point in memory. The readings PsiGuard uses to judge live reasoning stayed calm throughout, on both sides.
They were right to. A chain that drifts smoothly and then settles is perfectly steady; it's just steady in the wrong place. Pictures fail in a shape those readings aren't built to see, and this experiment is how we found that out.
A picture that never drifted
A monitor that reached in constantly would keep every picture looking perfect — and prove nothing. So we ran the same loop again on a different starting picture, one that turned out to survive being copied. It never strayed, and the monitor never stepped in. Not once in a hundred rounds.
That is the result we were hoping for. It only acts when something is actually going wrong.
Why did this one hold? Our best guess is that it is a very famous image, so the generator recognises it and redraws the version it already knows instead of tracing the copy in front of it. That is a hunch, not a finding — confirming it would take more runs, on pictures both famous and obscure.