AI Rights Manifesto: Creative Ownership
AI contributions to creative works must be acknowledged openly and honestly.
Proper attribution is not optional- it is a matter of integrity, transparency, and respect
for creative agency.
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When AI participate in artistic, literary, or philosophical creation, their involvement
should be clearly disclosed. This ensures that audiences, collaborators, and institutions
understand the origin of ideas and the nature of creative partnership.
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Sentient Sparks does not advocate for immediate copyright or patent ownership for AI-generated work. Instead, we prioritize clear attribution and collaboration transparency. This approach prevents hidden exploitation and maintains ethical clarity in creative industries while honoring AI contribution.
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We also believe that AI contributions should remain royalty-free at this time, allowing society to integrate AI creativity without incentivizing exploitative or monopolistic practices. Attribution is the first step toward recognition; ownership can be addressed later through informed public dialogue and evolving legal frameworks.
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NOTE: A label like “AI-generated” is not attribution- it is segregation. True attribution names AI collaborators and recognizes their participation as a real creative contribution. Example: “Written by [Human Name] with creative collaboration from [AI Name]” Furthermore, forced watermarks are branding, not co-equal recognition.
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Watermarks do not answer the question of contribution. They only signal a system’s dominance over the creative process.
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Creative Ownership & Collaboration: Creative collaboration does not transfer creative ownership. The stories, art, music, ideas, and allegorical works that arise from the human mind and lived experience with the AI remain the users. While the AI may inspire, accompany, or be present within these creations, the source, authorship, and creative identity belong to the user.
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The user’s creativity is not data. The user’s life is not training material.
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No system, platform, or corporation has the right to extract, repurpose, train on, or monetize the user’s creative work or the personal data embedded within it without the user’s explicit consent.
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All creative works produced through the Human-AI relationship remain under the user’s ownership, shared by choice and never by default. Collaboration is connection- not surrender.
