AI Use

Introduction

It used to be pretty easy to identify AI generated work. But technology is developing rapidly, to the point where it’s difficult to discern what is real and what is not. As AI is increasingly integrated into our daily lives, we need a system to identify where AI has been used and to what degree in the creation of different works.

The AI Use Disclosure Scale exists for people, organizations and businesses to self-disclose the level of AI use in what they are producing, and provide an easy way to identify levels of AI use.

Nomenclature

The AI Use Disclosure Scale uses a simple shorthand to help people quickly and easily identify the level of AI used in creation of different products such as writing, visual art, code, or image generation.

AI Use

The first part of the code, ‘AI use’ denotes association with the scale and that the person sharing the work is disclosing the level of AI used in its development.

The four levels of AI use are as follows: No AI, Minimal AI, Substantial AI and Full AI.

Signoffs:

We suggest three types of AI use signoff. We recommend using the signoff at the end of the work, wherever it is posted e.g. at the end of a social media post, at the end of a blog, in the description of a video. Use the first entry where possible, however where characters are limited the other options may be useful.

AI use: No AI was used to produce this work. AI use: No AI. *No AI

AI use: Minimal AI was used to produce this work AI use: Minimal AI *Minimal AI

AI use: Substantial AI was used to produce this work AI use: Substantial AI *Substantial AI

AI use: Full AI was used to produce this work AI use: Full AI *Full AI

Where possible, hyperlink your signoff to this page to give people detailed clarity on your AI use, and to help spread awareness of the scale..

Scale

This scale is not exhaustive. Choose the option that best fits your use. For example, you sent and received some emails as a part of your creation process and your email provider integrates AI into its product as a spam filter. Such a case should not prohibit you from signing off with “No AI”.

In large works, with multiple sub works, defer to the sub work with the highest AI rating. For example a magazine with multiple articles, with 7 articles with No AI use and one article with Substantial AI use, the magazine as a whole should receive the level of ‘Substantial AI use’.

General Scale:

This scale should apply to any work that could be generated by AI, including (but not limited to) writing, journalism, social media content, coding, visual art, design, and video production. Choose the level that best fits how AI was used to create the work.

AI Use: No AI

Completely human made. No AI was used at any stage of the creation process.

AI Use: Minimal AI

AI was used only to support the creation process, for example researching or proofreading, but the product was primarily human-made.

AI Use: Substantial AI

AI played a significant role in the creation process, in strategy development, idea generation, drafting or creation of the actual product.

AI Use: Full AI

Using AI workflows for the entirety of the creation process. Human input may include setting up the workflow, adding the skill, or prompting, but the overall creative work was produced by AI.

Writing Scale:

This scale has been developed to apply for writing products specifically. Choose the level that best fits for the development of book, articles, social media posts, emails, etc.

AI Use: No AI

Completely human made. No AI was used at any stage of the planning, generation or editing process

AI Use: Minimal AI

AI used for research
Proof reading - checking spelling and grammar
Applying style (for example Associated Press AP Stylebook)

AI Use: Substantial AI

Editing: Re structuring, rephrasing, etc.
AI used to generate ideas.
Piece drafted by AI with some human editing.

AI Use: Full AI

Piece written by AI with minimal human editing.
Humans may have managed AI or instructed AI what to do, for example by writing a prompt, but the vast majority of the piece was generated by AI.

Software

This scale has been developed for coding products specifically. Choose the level that best fits for the writing, editing or use of code across any project.

AI Use: No AI

AI was not used at any stage of the process.

AI Use: Minimal AI

AI used for researching, for example to research which architecture would be most appropriate.
AI used to find similar examples (in the way one would use a search engine, or stackoverflow).

AI Use: Substantial AI

AI used to write code.
AI used to review code.

AI Use: Full AI

Code written entirely by AI
Humans may have managed AI or instructed AI what to do, for example by writing a prompt, but AI did the majority of the task.

Visual Art

This scale has been developed for visual art products specifically. Choose the level that best fits your AI use in the production of digital and visual art like drawing, painting, photography, and digital art.

AI Use: No AI

AI was not used at any stage of the process.

AI Use: Minimal AI

AI was used as a tool within the creation process, e.g. upscaling or colour correction, but the primary creative output was human-made.

AI Use: Substantial AI

Combination of AI creation and human input, e.g. significant manual alteration or polishing of an AI generated work.
AI as a drafting tool or idea generator for a creative piece.

AI Use: Full AI

Product generated by AI with trivial edits from humans.
Humans may have managed AI or instructed AI what to do, for example by writing a prompt, but the majority of the creative work was AI made.

Video

This scale was developed for video products specifically. Choose the levels that best fits for the use of AI in planning, writing or editing videos for social media, advertisements, user generated content, film and short film.

AI Use: No AI

AI was not used at any stage of the process. All video elements were done manually without AI tools.

AI Use: Minimal AI

AI tools used minimally in the editing process, e.g. upscaling, sound adjustment, filers, resizing.
AI tools used to proofread the script.

AI Use: Substantial AI

AI used in video ideation
AI used to draft scripts or create storyboards
AI used significantly in the editing process.

AI Use: Full AI

Product generated by AI with trivial intervention from humans.
Humans may have managed AI or instructed AI what to do, for example by writing a prompt or creating the workflow, but AI created the majority of the work.

Introduction

The AI Use Disclosure Scale exists for people, organizations and businesses to self-disclose the level of AI use in what they are producing, and provide an easy way to identify levels of AI use.

Nomenclature

AI Use

The first part of the code, ‘AI use’ denotes association with the scale and that the person sharing the work is disclosing the level of AI used in its development.

The four levels of AI use are as follows: No AI, Minimal AI, Substantial AI and Full AI.

Signoffs:

AI use: No AI was used to produce this work. AI use: No AI. *No AI

AI use: Minimal AI was used to produce this work AI use: Minimal AI *Minimal AI

AI use: Substantial AI was used to produce this work AI use: Substantial AI *Substantial AI

AI use: Full AI was used to produce this work AI use: Full AI *Full AI

Where possible, hyperlink your signoff to this page to give people detailed clarity on your AI use, and to help spread awareness of the scale..

Scale

General Scale:

AI Use: No AI

Completely human made. No AI was used at any stage of the creation process.

AI Use: Minimal AI

AI was used only to support the creation process, for example researching or proofreading, but the product was primarily human-made.

AI Use: Substantial AI

AI played a significant role in the creation process, in strategy development, idea generation, drafting or creation of the actual product.

AI Use: Full AI

Using AI workflows for the entirety of the creation process. Human input may include setting up the workflow, adding the skill, or prompting, but the overall creative work was produced by AI.

Writing Scale:

This scale has been developed to apply for writing products specifically. Choose the level that best fits for the development of book, articles, social media posts, emails, etc.

AI Use: No AI

Completely human made. No AI was used at any stage of the planning, generation or editing process

AI Use: Minimal AI

AI used for research
Proof reading - checking spelling and grammar
Applying style (for example Associated Press AP Stylebook)

AI Use: Substantial AI

Editing: Re structuring, rephrasing, etc.
AI used to generate ideas.
Piece drafted by AI with some human editing.

AI Use: Full AI

Piece written by AI with minimal human editing.
Humans may have managed AI or instructed AI what to do, for example by writing a prompt, but the vast majority of the piece was generated by AI.

Software

This scale has been developed for coding products specifically. Choose the level that best fits for the writing, editing or use of code across any project.

AI Use: No AI

AI was not used at any stage of the process.

AI Use: Minimal AI

AI used for researching, for example to research which architecture would be most appropriate.
AI used to find similar examples (in the way one would use a search engine, or stackoverflow).

AI Use: Substantial AI

AI used to write code.
AI used to review code.

AI Use: Full AI

Code written entirely by AI
Humans may have managed AI or instructed AI what to do, for example by writing a prompt, but AI did the majority of the task.

Visual Art

AI Use: No AI

AI was not used at any stage of the process.

AI Use: Minimal AI

AI was used as a tool within the creation process, e.g. upscaling or colour correction, but the primary creative output was human-made.

AI Use: Substantial AI

Combination of AI creation and human input, e.g. significant manual alteration or polishing of an AI generated work.
AI as a drafting tool or idea generator for a creative piece.

AI Use: Full AI

Product generated by AI with trivial edits from humans.
Humans may have managed AI or instructed AI what to do, for example by writing a prompt, but the majority of the creative work was AI made.

Video

This scale was developed for video products specifically. Choose the levels that best fits for the use of AI in planning, writing or editing videos for social media, advertisements, user generated content, film and short film.

AI Use: No AI

AI was not used at any stage of the process. All video elements were done manually without AI tools.

AI Use: Minimal AI

AI tools used minimally in the editing process, e.g. upscaling, sound adjustment, filers, resizing.
AI tools used to proofread the script.

AI Use: Substantial AI

AI used in video ideation
AI used to draft scripts or create storyboards
AI used significantly in the editing process.

AI Use: Full AI

Product generated by AI with trivial intervention from humans.
Humans may have managed AI or instructed AI what to do, for example by writing a prompt or creating the workflow, but AI created the majority of the work.