When you see this logo on any artwork, whether painting, poetry, or prose, you know that it was made by a human just like you.

The Brainmade mark can be attached to any work made mostly by you or your friends, not generative tools like GPT. It’s not anti-AI, it is a positive mark that celebrates human creation. It’s not AI = bad, it’s human = good. There’s something transcendent and magical in knowing a human made the artwork I’m consuming, knowing they tried hard is part of the experience. It doesn’t have to be 100% human made (what would that even MEAN these days?), perhaps 90% human made.

Three examples of what this mark could apply to:

1. Using, say, ChatGPT as a rhyming dictionary feels fine, but writing whole verses of your poem doesn’t.
2. Using DALL-E to start brainstorming with 100 generated views of birds sitting on telephone lines seems fine, but getting it to paint large sections of your artwork doesn’t.
3. Asking a text generator to give you 10 happy-sounding synonyms for despair sparks joy in me, but asking it to write your anti-transcendentalist masterpiece does not.

I hope the following video will explain in detail for making this clear, but the tl;dr is:

• I don’t hate AIs,
• I love humans!

Watch my short video here, or read on.

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I don’t need 100% human made, I perhaps need 90% human made. Three examples may make my thinking clearer:

• Using, say, chatgpt as a rhyming dictionary feels fine, but writing whole verses of your poem doesn’t.
• Using DALL-E to start brainstorming with 100 generated views of birds sitting on telephone lines seems fine, but getting it to paint large sections of your artwork doesn’t.
• Asking a text generator to give you 10 happy-sounding synonyms for despair sparks joy in me, but asking it to write your anti-trancendentalist masterpiece does not.

Using these tools to make more of the artwork you want is valid, but you’re not a creator, you’re still a consumer. I’m not sure exactly what ‘too much AI’ is, but just like your audience, I’ll know it when I see it.

I love knowing a human made the artwork I’m consuming.
There’s something there, something transcendent and magical.

I like that you tried hard, that’s part of the experience.

Downloads

Please use these however you like, I release them to the public domain under Creative Commons 0 licence.

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Credits

• Logo based on “Human” by JunGSa from Noun Project
• And “seed” by Adrian Syauqi from Noun Project

Special thanks to everyone who workshopped the logo with me, especially super patron supporter Andrew Jackson. Andrew, I should be paying YOU!

About Me

I’m Tris, I’m a writer and producer of fast, technical videos, and audiofiction and music. My first career was as a web developer, doing production on the side for 15 years, but in 2022 I accidentally became entirely self-employed thanks to the surprising success of my YouTube channel, No Boilerplate.

At heart I’m still a software developer, I’ll re-use 100 libraries to avoid writing 10 lines of code - standing on the shoulders of giants is the only way I know how I get around. But I’ve looked for a way to mark my videos and stories as being made by humans, not AI, and I couldn’t find one that works in exactly the way I want.

So here we are!