Here is a real paper, its AI-use disclosure, and how you — or anyone — can check it. No theory, no glossary required first. Just one finished thing, start to finish.
Morality, Power, and the Problem of a Self-Sufficient God — William Stafford, Independent Researcher. Deposited on Zenodo (a permanent open-access archive), currently at edition v8.5.
Download the paper (PDF) View on Zenodo →The paper carries the mark LI-AIast5 — five disclosed AI entries, self-applied by an author working outside a formal credentialing system. Behind that mark is a full session record: which AI services were used, what each one did, and what the author checked.
Read the record card →That card describes what happened. It does not prove the file itself is untouched — that’s step 3.
The paper's published fingerprint (the MD5 checksum Zenodo lists in its Files section, for this exact edition — v8.5, the one with the QR code) is:
md5:727dfe3df6c113971cd1f674e2ef1807
Download the PDF above, open the Reader, drop the file in, paste that fingerprint — and see it match. That match proves the copy you have is byte-for-byte the one the author published. It doesn't prove the argument is right; it proves the file is real.
Open the Reader and try it →A work, a disclosure of how AI helped make it, and a receipt anyone can check without asking permission. Everything else on this site — the standard, the field kit, the vault — is the tooling behind those three steps.
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