The Audit Trail Paradox: Why Your LLM Logs Aren't Proof

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The Audit Trail Paradox: Why Your LLM Logs Aren't Proof You deploy an LLM agent into production. It makes a decision that costs your company €50k. Later, regulators ask: "Prove the agent followed your compliance rules." You show them your logs. They shake their heads. "These are claims your infrastructure made about what happened. We need proof an independent witness can verify." This is the audit trail paradox. What You Think You Have Most teams believe audit logs are proof. You log every API call, every decision, every parameter. You them immutably. You sign them.