Provenance Pipeline

Provenance (Beta) — What’s live vs. coming

This page describes the end-state of our provenance system. While in Beta, we operate a manual version of several steps and we’ll publish the exact status here.

Capture → Trust → Publish (today)

  • Capture: Phone IVR and web uploads (we announce recording + consent). We record basic locality signals (ZIP, IP, optional GPS).

  • Trust: Human review for high-risk topics and minors; basic automated checks (PII/profanity/synthetic flags).

  • Publish: Each post includes a simple “How we know” note where applicable. One CTA per post; sponsors labeled.

What’s shipping before 1/1/26

  • Provenance Chip (Clear / Partial / Limited) and a Reliability Score on each item.

  • Claim chips + citations: missing evidence → visible downgrade and limited distribution.

  • Signed feeds & C2PA for supported media.

Handling minors & health claims (effective now)

  • We avoid publishing identifying content about minors without guardian consent.

  • Health/legal/finance claims require human review and clear sourcing; otherwise they are held or labeled as unverified.

Logging & retention (Beta)

  • We keep ingest timestamps, reviewer IDs, and decision notes internally.

  • We plan to retain model-assist logs for 90 days and publish quarterly transparency summaries by Q1 ‘26.

Changelog

  • 2025-10-03: 1-pager launched; chip/score marked “Planned,” public “How we know” note added.