Machine-Mediated Reception Studies: Charter and Editorial Protocol is the founding governance document of a distributed journal created by Lee Sharks.
The charter assigns responsibility for machine-composed text to the human who constructs the context and releases the output. It treats visible error, named correction, provenance, consent, divergence, and version history as the core editorial method.
Its submission process uses several distinct reviewers or model systems to generate disagreement rather than to imitate peer-review consensus. Publication preserves drafts, feedback, consultations, changelogs, and errata.
The charter arose from a documented multi-agent error cascade. That incident is an archive case study, not a universal claim about every model or classifier.