Provenance Is Not a Watermark
The organization believes it has purchased accountability for its AI systems. It has purchased captions for its content. Provenance, claimed in one dimension, believed in six.
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The Chain of Custody Problem in AI
Courts do not require proof that evidence was tampered with. They only require a gap in its documented journey. Modern AI pipelines contain those gaps everywhere, making chain of custody the next frontier of AI accountability.