Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-19
Vaelis Measures Where AI Provenance Disappears
A provenance-verification API that validates C2PA content credentials, scores trust, and generates signed EU AI Act Article 50 evidence files.
Why it surfacedVaelis demonstrates its mechanism with a test image: even a pixel-identical PNG re-save reportedly drops the C2PA manifest, while JPEG recompression, resizing, and metadata stripping leave no provenance signals. The site turns that failure into a measurable workflow, with hashing, signed evidence, and a live API rather than a vague promise of compliance.
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The Song Resumes After the Story
August 19’s newborn domains include a Hawaiʻi road-trip radio that resumes each song after a GPS-triggered story, an offline Chattanooga recovery map, a 100 KiB operating system running Doom, and an archive of 169,588 Discord roleplay messages.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-19 Domain Arrivals issue.