# songseal-ai-disclosure-v1 **Status:** `PUBLISHED` · **Frozen:** 2026-08-16 > ## THIS DOCUMENT IS IMMUTABLE > > Sealed records commit to the string `songseal-ai-disclosure-v1` inside an > anchored digest. A record says *"my disclosure is written in this vocabulary"* > and can say nothing more — so if this document changes, every record that > cited it now means something it did not mean when it was sealed, and no reader > can tell. > > **Corrections are a NEW VERSION, never an edit.** `…-v2` is a different string > and old records go on pointing at this one. A checksum of this file is > recorded in `CHECKSUMS.json` beside it and enforced by the build gate, so an > edit fails loudly rather than silently rewriting the past. --- ## 1. What a disclosure is, here A statement by the artist about **how much AI was involved in making a thing**. Not a detection result, not our opinion, and not a judgement about the work. ```json "aiDisclosure": { "audio": { "value": "none", "scope": "version" }, "composition": { "value": "some", "scope": "version" }, "artwork": { "value": "material", "scope": "work" } } ``` Every entry has a `value` and a `scope`. Both are required. An asset with no disclosure is **omitted entirely** — there is no "unknown" value, because a record must not be able to imply an answer nobody gave. ## 2. `value` — the vocabulary Four values, ordered, from MOAD's `AiUsageEnum`: ```text none no AI involvement in this asset some AI used as a tool, incidental to the result material AI involvement a listener or viewer would consider significant all this asset is fully AI-generated ``` **These are the artist's judgement, not a measurement.** The boundary between `some` and `material` is not sharply defined and this document does not pretend otherwise. It is drawn where the artist draws it, which is the only place it can honestly be drawn by a disclosure-based system. **`none` is a real answer and must be given, not assumed.** A record where the disclosure is absent and a record where the artist said `none` are different records. The seal path refuses to default it. ## 3. `scope` — what the value is about ```text version this sealed version specifically (this rung, these bytes) work the song as a whole, across every version of it ``` This exists because the two are genuinely different claims and were being published as though they were the same. `audio` and `composition` are frozen per version; `artwork` is a property of the song. Three sibling keys with no scope read as one grain, and `artwork: some` next to `audio: none` would be taken as a claim about this recording's artwork when it is a claim about the song's. A reader must never have to know our schema to read our record. ## 4. `key` — the assets ```text audio the recording: performance, production, post-production composition the song itself: melody, harmony, lyrics, structure artwork the cover image ``` **This axis is ours, and it is not the industry's.** Stated plainly because the alternative is a reader assuming otherwise — see §5. New keys may be added in a later version. A key is never redefined or removed, for the same reason this document is immutable. ## 5. How this maps to the standards that matter — and where it does not **We are not a standards body.** This section is our reading of other people's work, it is dated, and their documents are canonical over ours. Where we are uncertain we say so rather than guessing, because a confident wrong mapping is worse for a reader than an acknowledged gap. Industry facts below are carried from `MOAD_BUILD_TRUTH/ai_disclosure_00_CANON.MD`, verified first-hand against live sources in June 2026. **They will age.** Re-verify before relying on them; do not edit them here (§0 — this file is frozen). ```text DDEX The disclosure standard MOAD binds to. Its asset axis is vocals / lyrics / instruments / post-production. OUR GAP, BOTH WAYS: · our `audio` collapses DDEX's vocals + instruments + post-production into one value. A DDEX consumer reading our record gets LESS grain than DDEX allows, and cannot recover it. · our `composition` overlaps DDEX's `lyrics` but is wider — it covers melody, harmony and structure too. · our `artwork` has NO DDEX equivalent on the recording axis. Cover art is not a DDEX recording asset. A faithful mapping is therefore LOSSY IN BOTH DIRECTIONS and this document does not claim one. Producing a verified field-level mapping against the actual DDEX schema is unfinished work. APPLE Transparency Tags, phasing in from March 2026, for AI use in a MATERIAL PORTION of a recording or lyrics. That threshold aligns with our `material` and `all`, on `audio` and `composition`. We have NOT verified their exact threshold definition against ours; treat the alignment as approximate. C2PA Content Credentials. A DIFFERENT KIND OF THING — cryptographic provenance assertions attached to a file, not an artist's summary judgement. It is complementary to this vocabulary rather than a target to map onto: C2PA can say which tool touched which bytes; this says how much AI the artist considers to be in the work. A record could honestly carry both. Neither derives the other. DEEZER, DETECTION-based, not disclosure-based. They scan and decide; QOBUZ this vocabulary is what the artist declares. Their penalties target FULLY AI-generated tracks (our `all`); work that uses AI tools remains available. Nothing here maps to their tags, and a disclosure of `all` is not an admission of anything — it is a true statement that some platforms treat differently. ``` ## 6. What this vocabulary deliberately does NOT do ```text NO PER-PERSON TRACKING AI is a tool, never a credited contributor. There is no field recording which human used which tool. MOAD scrapped this deliberately (canon DSC-1) as a misframing: the industry tracks AI by ASSET, and per-person tracking turns a disclosure into an audit. NO ITEMIZATION production assistance raises the asset's value; it does not trigger a tool-by-tool inventory. Not even the strictest enforcer demands one. NO INFERENCE we never derive a disclosure from anything — not from file metadata, not from a detector, not from a previous version. It is a statement or it is absent. NO JUDGEMENT `all` is not a confession and `none` is not a boast. This vocabulary describes; it does not rank. ``` ## 7. The point of all this An artist who wrote something alone, at 3am, on a phone, is increasingly likely to be told by a confidently-wrong detector that a machine made it. The burden of proof is landing on the people least equipped to carry it. A dated, anchored, artist-made disclosure is the other half of that argument. The ladder shows the work took time and had versions; the disclosure says, in the artist's own words and frozen at the moment they said it, what part a machine played. **Honest assistance, disclosed, is a first-class outcome — not an asterisk.** That is also why this vocabulary must be able to stop being ours. Standards for this are arriving from outside and will keep arriving. A record that names its scheme can be mapped onto whatever wins; a record that does not can only be guessed at.