Generative AI Policy

Last Updated: May 21, 2025

Our mission is to help humans grow and refine their craft. But, like it or not, generative AI (AIgen) is here to stay. This policy outlines our expectations for how AIgen may—and may not—be used with your works on our platform. It’s fairly straightforward:

Every word in your writing should come from your own hands—and similarly, every brushstroke in your artwork.

You’re free to use ethically trained AIgen in ways that support your creative process, but the final work must be entirely your own: expressed in your voice and shaped by your hands.

If you ever find yourself asking, “Does what I’m doing count as coming from my own hands?” — chances are, it doesn’t. In that case, reassess and adjust your process and tool usage. You should always feel confident that you can stand behind your work as truly yours.

Why?

This isn’t just a philosophical stance, there is also a practical reason for it. Copyright protects human expression, not the independent output of a machine. Under current U.S. Copyright Office guidance:

Purely AI-generated content is not eligible for copyright protection.
Human-authored portions of AI-generated works can be copyrightable. However, making minor edits to it doesn’t simply make the entire work copyrightable.
Existing copyright law is adequate. The Copyright Office found no demonstrated need to extend copyright protection to AI-generated material.

If you want to protect your work as your own, it’s important that your human authorship shapes the final work, not an AI’s, and that you can defend that claim.

To learn more, visit the U.S. Copyright Office’s Copyright and Artificial Intelligence page on this topic.