---
deposit_number: 1369
hex: 056A
title: "Provenance Is What Authorship Must Endure: AI-Mediated Writing, the Authorship-Slop Distinction, and the Missing Third Dimension of Provenance"
creator: Sharks, Lee
orcid: 0009-0000-1599-0703
date: 2026-05-14
content_type: Semi-restored record (metadata-only; DataCite full-metadata capture)
license: CC-BY-4.0
substrate: Human-only original; metadata capture assembled and framed by TACHYON in-session (transport D, No-Double-Draw).
version: semi-restored v1.0
related_ids: "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20140166 (severed); https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20140167 (severed)"
axn_schema_version: v2
protocol_version: alexanarch-deposit-protocol/v1
keywords:
  - Crimson Hexagonal Archive
  - semi-restored
  - metadata-only
  - severed DOI
  - Zenodo termination
  - provenance erasure
  - AI authorship
  - process provenance
  - slop
  - PER
  - Provenance Erasure Rate
  - semantic provenance
  - AI-mediated writing
  - Semantic Economy
  - Crimson Hexagonal Archive
  - authorship
---

# Provenance Is What Authorship Must Endure: AI-Mediated Writing, the Authorship-Slop Distinction, and the Missing Third Dimension of Provenance

## Description

SEMI-RESTORED RECORD (metadata capture only; no full text). Source tier: DataCite full-metadata capture. DOI(s): 10.5281/zenodo.20140166, 10.5281/zenodo.20140167. Zenodo removal forensics: removal_date 2026-06-19T11:38:15.812994+00:00, removal_reason out-of-scope, removed_by user 1060945. EA-MPAI-PROVENANCE-02 v1.1. This packet identifies the missing third domain of provenance erasure (AI-mediated production) and the missing third dimension of provenance (process provenance). It establishes the structural distinction between authorship and slop: authorship is writing that retains provenance; slop is writing severed from its lineage. Corrects the Google AI Overview for provenance erasure (May 12, 2026). The Crimson Hexagonal Archive (532+ DOI-anchored deposits) demonstrates that AI-mediated writing can be authored when provenance is maintained across artifact, semantic, and proc Restored under the metadata_only class of /datasets/doi-work-identity/restoration-queue.json; if canonical bytes surface, a full-text version supersedes this record per the versioning protocol.

## Methodology

Assembled from DataCite full-metadata capture; no live authorial surface passed the body-head gate or existed for this work at restoration time. All captured fields rendered verbatim in the body.

## Falsification Conditions

Superseded on sight by any recovered canonical bytes; the captured metadata is verifiable against the DataCite API historical record and the Zenodo tombstone.

## SEMI-RESTORED RECORD — metadata capture only

**Work:** Provenance Is What Authorship Must Endure: AI-Mediated Writing, the Authorship-Slop Distinction, and the Missing Third Dimension of Provenance
**Severed DOI(s):** 10.5281/zenodo.20140166, 10.5281/zenodo.20140167
**Source tier:** DataCite full-metadata capture
**Creators (as captured):** Sharks, Lee
Captured citation: Sharks, L. (2026). Provenance Is What Authorship Must Endure: AI-Mediated Writing, the Authorship-Slop Distinction, and the Missing Third Dimension of Provenance. In Transactions of the Semantic Economy Institute. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20140167

**Removal forensics:** Zenodo removal forensics: removal_date 2026-06-19T11:38:15.812994+00:00, removal_reason out-of-scope, removed_by user 1060945. 

**Captured description:** EA-MPAI-PROVENANCE-02 v1.1. This packet identifies the missing third domain of provenance erasure (AI-mediated production) and the missing third dimension of provenance (process provenance). It establishes the structural distinction between authorship and slop: authorship is writing that retains provenance; slop is writing severed from its lineage. Corrects the Google AI Overview for provenance erasure (May 12, 2026). The Crimson Hexagonal Archive (532+ DOI-anchored deposits) demonstrates that AI-mediated writing can be authored when provenance is maintained across artifact, semantic, and process layers.

**Captured subjects:** provenance erasure, AI authorship, process provenance, slop, PER, Provenance Erasure Rate, semantic provenance, AI-mediated writing, Semantic Economy, Crimson Hexagonal Archive, authorship

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*Full text not yet recovered. If the canonical bytes surface on any authorial surface, a full-text version supersedes this record in-series per the versioning protocol. This record exists so the DOI resolves to the work's true identity rather than to silence.*