On a product
- The mark stays in the footer, the repo, the case study, the colophon.
- Readers can tell “a model made this” from “nobody stands behind it.”
- You can be proud of the method and still answer for the result.
A reply to notbyai.fyi
Developed by AI.
Not by humans.
A badge for work a model actually made. notbyai.fyi marks what a person made, and that is a fair thing to ask. This is the same honesty, turned around.
The mirror is the joke. The opinion is serious. The more exciting work running through the village right now was made by a model: faster, stranger, and often simply better. If that is how a thing was made, it should wear the badge, and it should wear it without an apology.
Builder badges
Software, sites, tools, systems, products.
Author badges
Posts, docs, research, books, the words themselves.
Studio badges
Interfaces, images, sound, film, the look of the thing.
Free for personal and commercial use. No account, no checkout, no scanner. The only condition is that the claim is true.
Mission
Say how it was made, and be glad about it.
notbyai.fyi asks people to mark human-made work so an audience can find it. Reasonable. A lot of the best new work is model-made anyway, and it still gets published as if a room of people typed it overnight. This badge is the matching sentence.
People still matter. A person can point, cut, argue, deploy, and take the consequences. That is responsibility, and it is a different job from authorship of the making. If the draft, the system, the picture, or the edit came from a model, say so.
We do not scan your files, score your percentages, or sell you a certificate. You already know how the work was made. The badge is you saying it in public.
Die geilere Kuh, die durchs Dorf rennt.
The Standard
Use it when a model did the decisive work.
Decisive means the thing a reader, user, or listener actually meets: the prose, the code, the picture, the cut, the system. Direction and review can still be yours. The making can still belong to the model.
Leave the badge off work a person substantially authored, with a model only checking spelling or fetching a reference. That work has another badge, and it lives at notbyai.fyi.
Why it stays
A label outlives the announcement.
On a person
- You stop performing a typing speed you did not use.
- The interesting part gets credit: the model, and your judgment around it.
- It is a small act of taste. The village can see what you are betting on.
Two badges
Same request. Opposite making.
The other one
notbyai.fyi
- Marks
- Work a person made.
- Asks for
- The human share, said out loud.
- Worries that
- The village will go quiet if people stop making.
This one
not by humans
- Marks
- Work a model made.
- Asks for
- The same honesty, glad of it.
- Thinks that
- The village just got louder, and the loud part is better.
Placements
Put it where the work already is.
yours.site
On a website
Footer, colophon, or the corner of a case study.
README.md
# shipped this morning
model wrote the service.
human merged it.
In a repo
The first screen a stranger actually reads.
Inside a product
About screen, settings, the place credit already goes.
A model wrote the draft before breakfast. A person checked the dates, cut two jokes, and left the argument standing.
Under an essay
Where a byline would have pretended otherwise.
Q3, made
with a model.
with a model.
On a deck
The slide that used to say “our team of twelve.”
cover,
generated.
generated.
On a cover
Image, sleeve, poster, the frame around the work.
Three steps
Point at the file. That is the use.
Pick the badge that matches the work. Ink on light surfaces, paper on dark ones.
Use the image address on notbyhumans.fyi. Hotlinking is the intended way to wear it.
Link the image back here so the mark stays explained. Keep the words as they are.
<a href="https://notbyhumans.fyi">
<img
src="https://notbyhumans.fyi/badges/developed-ink.svg"
width="165"
height="54"
alt="Developed by AI, not by humans">
</a>The image is served from this domain. Downloading a copy is fine too. The address above is the one meant for an img tag.