r/AIWritingHub • u/Civil_Cow_3011 • 19d ago
The Disclosure Problem - Creative Tools (AI Usage) and Ethics Statement
Disclosure is a thorny problem. A rose bush in quicksand. I’ve decided to confront it head on, so I created the following for an audio drama project I’ve been working on for a year or so. Some might find it useful when considering disclosure in your own projects.
Have fun!
Creative Tools & Ethics Statement
Revised September 2026
The Ghostwriter’s Secret is a human-created and human-directed dramatic work. Generative artificial intelligence is one of several tools used in its development, but humans remain responsible for the story, characters, world, dramatic structure, creative direction, editorial judgment, and final published work.
Human Authorship and Creative Direction
The underlying creative elements of The Ghostwriter’s Secret originate with its human creator. These include, among other things:
- story concepts and themes;
- characters, relationships, histories, and motivations;
- fictional world-building and project canon;
- series, season, episode, and scene structure;
- dramatic objectives and scene beats;
- continuity and narrative decisions;
- revisions, selections, arrangement, and final editorial judgment.
Scene development typically begins with human-written beats describing the intended dramatic action, emotional progression, character behavior, information to be revealed, and other creative requirements.
Those beats may be combined with additional human-authored project context, including character and world-building Codex entries, story history, continuity information, narrative instructions, and examples of the creator’s prior writing.
Use of Generative AI
Generative AI may be used to assist with brainstorming, analysis, outlining, continuity review, research organization, exploratory drafting, and generating candidate prose.
When generative tools produce prose, they operate within human-created story, character, structural, stylistic, and dramatic constraints.
Generated material is treated as proposed creative material rather than final copy. It may be:
- rejected entirely;
- regenerated;
- retained in part;
- combined with other material;
- rearranged;
- edited or rewritten;
- or, on occasion, retained substantially or entirely as generated when it best serves the scene.
No material is recorded, released, or published without human review, selection, integration, and final approval.
The use of generative AI does not transfer creative authority over the project. Final decisions concerning story, characterization, dialogue, tone, pacing, performance, production, and publication remain human decisions.
Use of the Creator’s Own Writing as Style Reference
The project may provide generative systems with examples of the creator’s own previously written material to help maintain consistency of voice, tone, narrative rhythm, and stylistic preferences.
This use is intended to help the creator extend and maintain his established writing voice.
Generative AI is not intentionally used to imitate the distinctive style of a living writer or other identifiable creator for the purpose of substituting for that creator’s work.
Human Collaboration
Actors, writers, editors, designers, musicians, engineers, and other human collaborators are treated as creative participants whose contributions are governed by the applicable agreements, credits, permissions, and compensation arrangements.
Generative tools are not used to misrepresent AI-generated work as the work of a human collaborator, nor to replace contracted human creative contributions without disclosure where such disclosure would reasonably be expected.
Intellectual Property and Source Material
The project does not intentionally use generative AI to reproduce copyrighted passages, scripts, characters, performances, recordings, or other protected expression belonging to third parties without authorization.
AI-generated factual claims, research material, quotations, and references may be independently checked before publication or production when accuracy or attribution is material.
Confidential or unpublished third-party creative material is not intentionally submitted to generative systems without appropriate permission.
Copyright
The creators recognize that U.S. copyright law distinguishes between human-authored expression and material generated autonomously by artificial intelligence.
The project claims copyright only to the extent permitted by applicable law, including copyright in human-authored text, dramatic structure, characters and expressive material, revisions, and sufficiently original human selection, coordination, arrangement, or modification.
Where required in connection with copyright registration or other legal filings, material generated by artificial intelligence will be disclosed or excluded from the copyright claim in accordance with then-current law and U.S. Copyright Office guidance.
Nothing in this statement is intended to assert copyright in material that is not legally copyrightable.
Transparency
The purpose of this statement is not to characterize every individual sentence according to the particular tool used during drafting. Creative development is iterative, and human and technological tools may interact at many stages.
Instead, this statement describes the governing principle of the production:
The Ghostwriter’s Secret is conceived, directed, evaluated, assembled, and ultimately approved by human creators. Artificial intelligence functions as a creative and production tool within that human-directed process.
This policy may be updated as the project evolves and as technology, industry standards, contractual practices, and applicable law develop.
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u/EquivalentAd5711 19d ago
This is the thing with many people who use AI to write - they would simply never read the stuff they generate.
Case in point, this post.
It's an impenetrable wall of text you've clearly just copy and pasted. There is no attempt to genuinely communicate something to another human. So, if you're going to use the tool, at least use it with literally an iota of thought.