Not By AI

I mentioned that the book Why Are You Out Of School? from my friends has a page in it about not being AI created. Here’s that:

Book held open by hand to a page reading: "No AI was used in the production of this Songbook. Just humans creating for other humans."

Reminds me of these “badges” I saw the other day. The intention looks the same:

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I like the sentiment. Here’s mine, which let’s say applies to every word and pixel on this site:

I feel I should offer some criticism though: the website makes you cough up your email to download them. Then it really wants a donation, and while it has a vague mission of encouraging humans to “produce more original content”, it doesn’t really say what the plan is or what they (he?) needs money for. Also, it might be because my brain is already prompted to think about AI so much while looking at the site, but the copy seems generic enough to the point that it kinda feels like it might be AI-written (ha!), which could potentially make this a weird social experiment or art project or something, highlighting… irony or something.

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4 responses to “Not By AI”

  1. Marc says:

    Like that. Seen the last beyond tellerrand design for Berlin and its theme? β€œCreative high without AI”. Will post the whole stuff soon, but here is a photo of the mugs. ;)

    https://beyondtellerrand.com/photos/berlin-2023-martin-kraft/mkr33376-beyond-tellerrand.jpg

  2. Yes! I have this in my website homepage too, but I also hated how they are pushing the donation thing and requires EULA and stuff like that. It feels to me like people behind the thing are trying to monetize an idea, which feels weird indeed.

    Ah, was almost forgetting, the shape of the badge is unusual :D. I know, while sticking out, it adds inconsistency to the website.

  3. Flimm says:

    “Written by human” sounds grammatically incorrect to me. Shouldn’t it be “written by a human”? Or is it supposed to be a play on the expression “by hand”?

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