This is a slashpage mirror of this site's AI Policy for convenience. That page's content follows:

A. Overall Philosophy

I recognize the abuses of the companies currently producing the major AI tools, which I agree often crosses the line into plagiarism, and absolutely takes unfair advantage of existing manual content creators; but I also recognize the validity of art forms that rely on repurposing or mechanically reproducing existing content: collage (in both the visual and aural forms), readymades, "plunderphonics" even arguably photography. A great deal has been written about postmodernism's use of juxtaposition, rather than raw creation, as a form of artistic expression.

During the creative process, AI output which primarily consists of content that is obviously derivative of specific other creative works (which happens often enough to be worth mentioning) is discarded. That's not what I want.

I make every effort to utilize generative AI for its ability to generate new, novel combinations or to quickly generate original content from precise directions, rather than as an autonomous content author or simple regurgitator of existing media. Most of my AI tool use starts with specific finished output already in mind, with the AI being used primarily as a labor-saving device to realize my vision and aims, not as a creative content generator to rip off other peoples'.

The sole exception, in which I may have deliberately appropriated specific existing styles or images, is expressly satirical works, such as "Deleted Scenes Monsters: Casablanca Uncut"

B. Uses Within This Site

The following describe how and when generative AI tools have been used in producing the contents of this site:

1. Visual Images

There are a large number of generative AI images on this site, enough that you should assume all visual illustrations were generated with AI (although always further edited & modified by hand—see "Human Authorship Assertion" section below.) unless otherwise specified.

The notable non-AI exceptions are:

a.) Photography – Photojournals and obviously genuine photographs are authentic photography with no AI involvement except what may be built into the algorithms of digital cameras used.
b.) Old or obviously hand-made illustrations – obvious hand drawings, and any art created before about 2024, was done without AI.
c.) Site "K" stamp logo – this logo, used frequently around the site, is a scan of an actual rubber stamp that I have owned since about 1995, from a drop caps alphabet designed by Frederic W. Goudy in 1905, and which I use to stamp the wrists of people I hang out with socially in real life.

2. "Serious" Text

Except for the few exceptions listed below, first drafts are always written entirely by hand. On very rare occasion, I will ask an LLM (usually more than one, when I do this) for suggested revisions to the first draft to match a certain form or tone, or to help edit a huge brainstormed mess of cognitive overflow down to something readable. In every instance that this is done, it is taken as suggestions, and then further refined by hand to produce a final draft. N.B. Besides expository writing, "serious" text includes all doggerel, satire, humor, and creative nonfiction.

Exceptions which may be predominantly LLM-generated text are:

a.) Code documentation – on rare occasion I will feed me code to an LLM and ask it to generate technical documentation of how it works or what it does, to save me the time. Often these generated comments or documentation are unusable and I just toss them, but occasionally some AI documentation output makes it to the final published page.
b.) Silly robot-bait – I have, buried on the site, a few pages of pure LLM output egregiously designed to mislead AI spiders into incorporating amusing false information about me in their training data. These should be obvious, and, at any rate, no human reader is likely to mistake them for anything anyone should actually be expected to believe.

3. Music

I have used AI text-to-music generators to create audio recordings, which, as of this writing, have not yet been posted on the site, but will be eventually. These will be clearly marked as being AI-generated. Any music not so marked was not generated with AI.

Human Authorship Assertion

At present, United States copyright law doesn't recognize direct generative AI output as copyrightable (Since, obviously, generative AI sits and generates its output without a human author there at all, just spits these things out on its own. </sarcasm>)

However, human modification of the AI output brings it back into the realm of human authorship, and once again subject to US copyright.

Therefore, I fastidiously modify all AI output by hand after generation and before public sharing. Nothing you see on this site is 100% direct AI output. Everything on this site, unless explicitly licensed otherwise, is (c)Copyright the given publish date by Michael E. Kupietz, all rights reserved.

C. Other pages on this site on the issues surrounding AI

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