As artificially generated content continues to spread across the internet it is important to take a stance as an individual and as a company on how AI will be used for my projects.
The rules for MacIvor Technical LLC
As it regards any human-facing media of any kind, whether that is copy, images, videos, or similar - AI will not be used to generate that content. It is not permitted to create images or videos.
Some exceptions apply for human-facing copy.
- For generating copy necessary for accessibility, such as aria properties, and similar structure used for guiding screen readers and other assistive technology.
- For creating microcopy such as for buttons, labels, navigation.
- Generating legal copy, such as terms of service and privacy policies.
- For generating translations of human created copy.
- AI can be used for finding and fixing minor spelling and grammatical errors as well as broken links.
- AI may process media which includes acting to re-size, re-encode, crop, modify metadata, or composite media.
AI can render assistance without informing decisions on media.
- AI can point out factual errors and stale information but may not fix them.
- It may be used to suggest edits that would change the meaning of images and videos, particularly where it would assist accessibility, but it is not allowed to apply them.
- AI can help an author adhere to a human generated outline for content creation, such as pointing out where the outline suggests a human intended to supply detail per the outline but failed to do so.
AI is permitted to write code and technical facing documentation.
- AI is permitted to create code, document structure in terms of HTML, metadata intended for other agents or bots and similar tasks.
- AI may also generate metadata necessary for completing coding tasks, such as commit messages, PR descriptions, technical documents including READMEs.
What to expect when an agent modifies a document that requires human generated copy.
- It may leave a placeholder such as Add Copy Here or similar.
- If it is informed of the purpose by a human, it can add the purpose of the copy to the placeholder.