The quest for content authenticity amidst generative AI has led to various solutions, primarily blockchain and centralized platforms. However, these often create access barriers, undermining true distributed trust. Effective trust infrastructure needs universal accessibility, avoiding monetization that limits access. Solutions must resist becoming rent-seeking mechanisms, ensuring long-term and equitable verification systems.Continue Reading

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      The promise is seductive: generate product photography in seconds, automate image editing at scale, produce marketing visuals without the overhead of traditional production. Generative AI tools for visual content have moved from experimental curiosity to operational necessity faster than most compliance frameworks can adapt. If your organizationContinue Reading

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Cloudflare acquired Human Native on January 15, 2026. The London startup had built a marketplace connecting content owners with AI companies seeking training data. The deal completes an 18-month infrastructure build, but the strategic question remains: is Cloudflare operating a toll booth that charges for passage, a warehouse that aggregatesContinue Reading

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 As the internet evolves into an AI agent repository database, filled with text, images, videos, and sounds specifically built to be used and consumed by AI systems, we can envision a segregated internet area solely reserved for real human beings, where access is predicated on proving one’s humanity through increasinglyContinue Reading

As the EU AI Act’s obligations for general-purpose AI models take effect, the age of opaque training data and untraceable outputs is drawing to a close. The Shifting Sands of AI Regulation The era of unregulated AI development is coming to an end, at least in Europe. As generative AIContinue Reading

Copyright is a Pillar of Provenance Copyright isn’t just a legal mechanism—it’s also a system of traceability. When a piece of content is protected by copyright: Its origin is clear (who created it, when, and under what rights). Its chain of custody can often be reconstructed (via licenses, credits, metadata,Continue Reading