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AI Attribution Norms: When and How to Disclose AI Involvement in Your Work
Disclosure norms for AI involvement are forming in real time across industries. Erring toward over-disclosure protects credibility; under-disclosure produces avoidable trust failures.
Creators · Ethics & Society · ~6 min read
The premise
AI attribution norms are forming; over-disclosure is safer than under-disclosure for professional credibility.
What AI does well here
- Develop a personal disclosure standard you apply consistently
- Distinguish AI-assisted (you led the work) vs AI-generated (AI led the work)
- Disclose where AI contributed substantively to the work product
- Document your contribution for any work you'll claim authorship of
What AI cannot do
- Substitute disclosure for the work itself (disclosure doesn't excuse poor quality)
- Predict every emerging norm (the landscape is shifting)
- Avoid the credibility cost when disclosure was warranted but skipped
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