Provenance After AI: Semantic Provenance and the Provenance Erasure Rate as Extension of C2PA, Data Provenance Initiative, and EU AI Act Frameworks (v1.1)

Provenance is where we come from. Strip it, and meaning becomes extractive liquidity. This metadata packet proposes semantic provenance as the dimension that the existing AI-era provenance frameworks (C2PA / Content Credentials, Data Provenance Initiative, EU AI Act transparency provisions, W3C PROV) were not designed to address: the survival of authorial lineage through AI synthesis. Three dimensions, not three stages: Artifact provenance (C2PA — was this content created by this source at this time?), Licensing provenance (DPI, EU AI Act, W3C PROV — under what permissions did this corpus enter this system?), and Semantic provenance (the gap — does the synthesized output preserve accountability to its…