At BackerKit, our workforce is enthusiastic about individuals’s passions. For ten years, we’ve supported creators of their journey to launch tasks and construct thriving inventive practices and companies. We’ve developed deep relationships and respect for the individuals who breathe life into crowdfunding tasks, and we’re dedicated to defending their well-being on our platform.

That’s why we’re asserting a brand new coverage that goals to deal with rising issues concerning possession of content material, moral sourcing of information, and compensation for the method of making content material.

Creators make investments important time, effort, and sources into their tasks. BackerKit’s Belief & Security workforce goals to safeguard these endeavors, making a respectful area for tasks and interactions between creators and their backers.

As a part of this consideration, BackerKit has dedicated to a coverage that restricts using AI-generated content material in tasks on our crowdfunding platform.

This coverage goes into impact on October 4, 2023.

AI-assisted writing, picture era, and video expertise are advancing quickly, as are the discussions surrounding their inventive functions. It’s essential for us to acknowledge each the quick and long-term adversarial results they could pose to the creators and artistic communities we serve.

At BackerKit, we’re pushed to make sure creators are pretty rewarded for his or her onerous work and creativity. Attributable to issues about AI instruments utilizing content material with out correct compensation or permission, we’ll proceed to restrict their use on our platform till there’s a system that may assure equity in sourcing, permission, and compensation.

Instance of restricted AI-generated content material for an artwork asset

Picture courtesy Simplified

This coverage emphasizes that tasks on BackerKit can’t embody content material solely generated by AI instruments. All content material and belongings should first be created by people.

This doesn’t affect content material refined with AI-assisted instruments like “generative content material fill” or “object alternative” (picture enhancing software program features that assist mix or exchange chosen parts of a picture), different commonplace picture adjustment instruments (saturation, colour, decision,) or AI language instruments that refine human-created textual content with modifications to spelling, grammar, and syntax.

Software program assisted by AI, reminiscent of transcribers or video monitoring expertise are permitted below these pointers. Nevertheless, software program with the aim to generate content material utilizing AI wouldn’t be permitted.

Instance of permitted AI instrument help for a picture asset

Picture courtesy fxguide

Content material on BackerKit that’s solely AI-generated or lacks a minimal requirement of human enter could result in the mission being briefly or completely denied through the evaluation course of. Throughout a evaluation, our Belief & Security workforce could contact you to assist present verification that your content material is inside these pointers. Violations of this coverage after a mission has launched may end in content material elimination, mission suspension, or the mission being eliminated.

BackerKit is devoted to supporting creators, their collaborators, and their communities.

We’re dedicated to constructing a useful record of directories and databases that will help you discover content material creators to assist your tasks. As a place to begin, listed below are some sources sourced from our neighborhood: Listing of Illustration, Cartoonists of Colour database, Queer Cartoonists database, Disabled Cartoonists database, Ladies Who Draw.

As a part of this coverage, BackerKit may even robotically exclude all content material uploaded by our creators for his or her tasks from AI coaching.

By default, BackerKit will disguise content material from AI knowledge scrapers.

As AI-generation instruments evolve, so will the dialogue surrounding them and their permissible use. BackerKit places its creators first, and we’ll proceed to assemble suggestions and refine our coverage and processes with the intention to assist foster a supportive neighborhood of creators, artists, and backers.

You probably have any questions or suggestions about our new AI coverage, please contact our Belief and Security workforce at [email protected]. If you’re not sure if the content material to your mission meets these pointers, please don’t hesitate to get in contact with our workforce at [email protected] in order that we could help additional.