soQuiet AI Policy
soQuiet AI Policy [Approved: August, 2026]
We don’t need machines to produce art since we have a much better tool for that: our brains.
No content published by soQuiet, such as articles, images, videos, and other media, will be knowingly written, designed, drawn, or produced by an LLM or similar generative AI platform. All articles, images, artwork, videos, and similar works will be ideated and created by humans. AI content will never knowingly be used as a source; all content must be fact-checked and verified by humans. Any inadvertent uses of AI content will be removed and/or corrected promptly.
Issues with the use of AI-generated media [not a complete list]:
Courts have upheld that AI-generated content is not copyrightable. This creates a very real issue for the organization when claiming authorship of media and content.
soQuiet has a reputation for being factual, honest, and friendly; this is tough for a machine to duplicate without sounding “off.”
AI will invent facts and state them confidently, leading to the spread of false information which is antithetical to soQuiet’s mission. Any AI content must be carefully fact checked if it is meant to be trustworthy and this increases the amount of work necessary via thorough fact checking, proofreading, editing, and rewriting.
AI has dramatically “muddied the waters” of what is and is not accurate information in the world. Discourse has become increasingly about whether any particular content was created by AI, thereby making it untrustworthy and, worse, might have been generated with the sole purpose of misleading readers and viewers. This is all against the mission of soQuiet.
AI generated content is low effort and low quality. It is often easier and faster to create original media the traditional way, producing a higher-quality result.
The human activity of creating art is a primary purpose of art in the first place. AI presents a poor facsimile of the end product while removing the reason for creativity outright.
AI is trained on the creative work of humans without their consent and attempts to fabricate works duplicating their original styles which is a large ethical concern.
AI is very processing-intensive and uses resources that have a real cost to communities.
References:
Chun, J. (2026) Hank Green is creating ‘an AI policy for himself.’ He thinks other creators should, too, CNET. Available at: https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/hank-green-is-creating-an-ai-policy-for-himself-he-thinks-other-creators-should-too/ (Accessed: 21 August 2026).
Das, M. (2026) Getting started on a responsible AI use policy for nonprofits, Candid. Available at: https://candid.org/blogs/how-to-create-responsible-ai-use-policy-for-nonprofits/ (Accessed: 21 August 2026).
Dupree, Z. (2026) The Case Against The Case Against AI, YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gGl3NVOY0g (Accessed: 21 August 2026).
U.S. Copyright Office (2026) Copyright and artificial intelligence. Available at: https://copyright.gov/ai/ (Accessed: 24 August 2026).
Peterson, H. (2026) Top Ten AI usage policy considerations for nonprofits, The Nonprofit Alliance. Available at: https://tnpa.org/top-ten-ai-usage-policy-considerations-for-nonprofits/ (Accessed: 21 August 2026).
For further information, please reference the soQuiet Code of Ethics , notably: “[soQuiet strives] to be impeccable with our words. We create content that is original and unique and credit others for their creative works. We do not spread false information or place stock in speculation.”