A lot of organizations are rushing to publish AI policies. That is a good thing. It shows customers and partners that someone is thinking about how these tools are used. But there is an important distinction that often gets missed. An AI policy on a website is not the same thing as AI governance inside […]
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Why UX Research Still Supports Trust Signals, Even as Interfaces Get Cleaner
Every few years, trust signals fall out of favor. Badges feel dated. Labels feel noisy. Designers start asking whether users even notice them anymore. The instinct is understandable. Interfaces keep getting simpler, so anything that looks like an extra element can feel like clutter. But this cycle keeps repeating for a reason. The research never […]
California SB 53 Is Not an AI Ethics Law and That’s the Point
For a long time, AI transparency has been mostly vibes. Ethics pages, responsible AI statements, and blog posts full of good intentions. Some of that work was sincere, but none of it was required, and very little of it was comparable across companies. California SB 53 quietly breaks that pattern. It does not try to […]
So I asked Chat a Question About This Sites Existence
New topic about the relevance of aipolicyregistry.com as a site and product:Is the use of AI, currently or in the near future, so ubiquitous that it becomes unnecessary to call it out at all? It feels like, as time goes by, the reaction is increasingly, “duh, yeah, everyone is using AI.” Here is what my […]
Trust Signals vs Dark Patterns: How Websites Earn Trust or Lose It
Most people decide whether to trust a website in a matter of seconds. They are not reading policies or inspecting code. They are reacting to cues. Some of those cues make people feel informed and in control. Others quietly push them toward decisions they did not fully intend to make. That difference is the line […]
Why Content Level AI Disclosure Is Not Enough Without Site Wide Transparency
AI disclosure is starting to show up in more places across the web. You see it in image watermarks. You AI disclosure is finally starting to show up in the open. You see it on images with watermarks. You see it in article bylines that admit some level of AI assistance. In some cases, there […]
AI Can Remember Longer Than Ever. Companies Still Won’t Say What It Remembers
Google recently published a research post titled Titans + MIRAS: Helping AI Have Long-Term Memory. It outlines new techniques that allow AI systems to retain and retrieve information across much longer spans of text and interaction. This is a meaningful technical milestone. It also quietly raises a harder question that most companies are not prepared […]
Why Every Website Needs an AI Policy
A blogger’s take on what Writer.com got right and what they missed I read Writer.com’s piece on corporate AI policies the other day, and it’s solid. It lays out why companies need to be clear about how they use AI, to stay ethical, protect data, and keep teams aligned. But while reading, I kept thinking: […]
Why People Are Starting to Distrust AI Content and What Brands Should Do About It
AI-made content is everywhere now. Blog posts, ad copy, product descriptions, even videos are being spun out by algorithms in seconds. It was exciting at first. Now, a growing number of people are complaining that what they read or watch feels off. The trust that once came naturally between brand and audience is starting to […]
AI Policy Writers Are Just the Start – What Comes Next?
More and more businesses are turning to an AI policy writer to get a quick draft of their website policy. The appeal is obvious. You save time, you save money, and you get something on the page that looks complete. For many, that feels like the end of the job. But a generated draft is […]