Cited™: two honest states.
Cited tells a reader who stands behind a piece of AI-made work. Every Cited piece carries exactly one of two states.
- Human-owned
- A named person reviewed this piece and stands behind every claim in it. Work a person wrote with AI help is Human-owned, and its wording says AI was involved.
- Autonomous
- A machine produced this piece under a method a person set. No person read this specific output. It always names three things: the automated process, the accountable party, and a path to a human.
The state describes the layer the reader is actually looking at, not how much human effort went in upstream. There is no third, in-between state.
The goal is simple. Readers stop asking whether something is slop and start asking whether they want it.