Most AI systems today are built on an implicit assumption
that the data they consume is "good enough"
In reality, they operate on a mix of scraped, cached, proxied, and often unverifiable inputs
That works for content generation
It completely breaks down for anything involving capital, identity, or decision-making
The moment AI moves from generating text to taking actions
data integrity becomes the bottleneck
Verifiable data is not a nice-to-have layer
It is the prerequisite for turning AI systems into accountable systems