Who Keeps the Prompt?
Why courts, AI operators, and regulators are waking up to a new record-keeping problem
By Alan Robertson — discarded.ai
I’ve been thinking about how we use AI tools and what happens when the conversation itself becomes evidence.
It isn’t just the output that matters anymore. It’s the prompts, the context, the invisible trail.
Here’s how the story unfolds, why it matters for anyone working in AI ethics and governance, and how I believe we ought to respond with policy and control.




