Every model failure produces the same ritual: the trainer blames the data, the data team blames the vendor, the vendor blames the prompt. Nobody can prove anything, because nobody wrote it down.
write it down, permanently
A fingerprint is a cryptographic promise: "these weights, this data, this license, at this time." Once sealed, it can't be edited away. The next time a model misbehaves, the investigation starts with a link, not a meeting.
the end of the meeting
When provenance is public, the blame game collapses into a lookup. You don't argue about what happened — you query it. That's faster, and it's fairer to the people who did their jobs right.
trust is a lookup, not a reputation.
— devi