Can a notary paste a deed into an AI? The original and the copy
A notary never lets the original leave the office.
That rule has protected the authenticated deed for centuries: the original stays where it was drawn up, under the responsibility of the person who received it. What travels is a copy. Nobody has ever had to justify the reflex, it is simply part of the craft.
The moment the reflex switches off
Then comes the day you paste a full deed into a chat window to have it reworded.
At that exact moment, the reflex switches off. What leaves is the text itself, with the seller’s civil status, the price, the address of the property and sometimes the personal reason behind the urgency of the sale. The original has left the office, and no conscious decision ever authorised it.
Nothing in the gesture signals that threshold. The interface draws no line between a draft and an executed deed. It takes the clipboard exactly as it arrives.
Deciding what may never become a copy
The useful question bears less on protecting what goes out than on the nature of what goes out. Some elements have no reason to become a copy at all, whoever the recipient is.
That is what reversible redaction running on your own machine does: the model receives the structure of the deed, the clauses, the legal reasoning. It receives no name, no number, no address. The table linking each token back to the real value never leaves your computer, and you are the one holding it.
The deed stays readable to you. It becomes useless to everyone else.
From paper to clipboard
Your office solved this problem on paper a long time ago. Cabinets, enforceable copies, the responsibility of the custodian: an entire material apparatus encodes the distinction between the original and what circulates.
What remains is solving it on the clipboard, where no cabinet exists and where the distinction is no longer visible.