AI signal

The Creative Commons nonprofit has started an initiative called CC Signal with the intent to define new licenses aimed at signaling the copyright holders'

preferences for how their content can be reused by machines based on a set of limited but meaningful options shaped in the public interest.

Never mind the fact that most artists have repeatedly and vocally stated that they do not consent to their “content” being reused by machines, and that despite this and the obvious copyright violations and disregard for the authors' will that undergoes the training of most LLMs —to the point that the techbros behind them are openly stated that they wouldn't have a leg to stand on if they respected copyright— nothing significant has been done in response to these glaring violations, so that this initiative would seem nothing more than an abstract exercise.

What's worse, though, is that this actually indicates that whoever is steering the direction the CC chooses to move towards is completely detached from the interests and desires of its purported user base. The original initiative behind the CC licenses served an often sought-out balance between the strictest enforcement of copyright and the desire of many artists to formally relinquish a subset of the rights granted by it. This time, there isn't much of an interest —if at all— in finding a “middle ground”. Nobody wants their creative work to be ingested by exploitative, power-hungry LLMs to be subsequently defecated in a sloppy sludge of manipulative scams.

The only thing creators are interested in is telling the powers behind the incorrectly-named “AI”s to buzz off.

I've therefore taken the liberty to create a new logo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, that is specifically designed for that. Of course, as already discussed, remember that using an easily-detectable logo to indicate absence of AI may actually help expose you to more aggressive scraping, in complete disregard for your desire, because LLMs are always hungry for fresh material.

And of course, do keep in mind that stamping my logo anywhere has no legal bearing. On the upside it's one of my usual hand-coded logos, so it's a very clean SVG that you can download from here and edit to your heart's content.