The design-art collective COPODE and I are pleased to announce the
launch of the '100% Inhuman Made' badges project.
We’ve marked the launch with a post on the LSE Impact Blog titled
‘Nothing is “100% human authored”’:
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/04/27/nothing-is-100-human-authored/
There is also a project webpage here:
http://garyhall.squarespace.com/100-inhuman-made-badges/
The project starts from a simple observation: generative AI is
unsettling long-standing conventions of authorship, ownership and credit
across academia and the cultural industries.
Much of the response so far has focused on reaffirming the role of the
authentic individual human as author or artist. But what if that
starting point is itself part of the problem?
The 100% Inhuman Made project explores an alternative: challenging the
idea that any work is ever purely 100% human-made, and instead
foregrounding the distributed, collaborative and infrastructural
elements - human and nonhuman, including often hidden forms of labour -
involved in creating knowledge and culture.
From this perspective, a 100% Inhuman Made badge is less a label than
an invitation: to think again about what we mean by creativity,
authorship and even the human in a world shaped by climate breakdown and
the rapid take-up of AI.
The 100% Inhuman Made badges (and their underlying code) are released on
a CC2r: Collective Commitment to Reuse basis. If this invitation
resonates, feel free to generate a badge using the 100% Inhuman Badge
Generator:
https://inhumanmade.github.io/100-Percent-Inhuman-Badge-Generator/
Regards, Gary
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Gary Hall
Founding co-director of Open Humanities Press:http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
Blog:http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/
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