Demo · Authorship and the audit trail

Provenance Strands.

A generated clinical letter, with its authorship drawn above every sentence. Scrub the timeline and watch it being written, edited and signed, by two different hands.

Signed
Discharge letter · Chen Wei · 15 October Signed · A. Raza
Model draft Human edit Verified

What this is arguing

A provenance label usually says one thing about a whole document: generated, assisted, or reviewed. That is a single bit standing in for a process with many hands in it. The strands here are the alternative: one bar per sentence, showing who held the pen and for how long.

Two things become visible that a label cannot show. First, some sentences were never touched, and they are not the trivial ones. Second, two safety sentences were written entirely by a human after the model had finished, which means a provenance label reading "AI-generated" would be wrong about the most important part of the letter.

Drag the timeline back to zero and the letter almost assembles itself. That is the point a reader is being asked to trust: not that a model wrote it, but that a person was in the loop, and where.

The patient, the letter and the audit events are fictional and were written for this demonstration. No real clinical record or real editing history is shown. This is a research demo about how authorship could be displayed, not clinical advice.