Sample Public Comment Disclosure Built for Challenge Resilience
Reference disclosure language for attaching to a public comment in a regulatory proceeding, structured to withstand challenge by opposing parties on AI authorship grounds.
Public comments in major regulatory proceedings are increasingly challenged on AI authorship grounds. The challenge is not whether AI was used — most modern commenters use it. The challenge is whether the human commenter actually formed and stands behind the views.
Sample disclosure: "This comment was prepared with AI assistance for prose refinement and structural feedback. The factual claims, policy positions, and recommendations are mine, formed independently and reviewed in full. A verifiable record of AI consultation and human adoption decisions is retained at attestation ID [redacted] and is available to the docket on request."
The deliberate ordering — assistance type, human ownership, verifiability — is what gives the disclosure its resilience. Each clause closes a different line of attack.
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