Is this product 'human-made'? The race to establish an AI-free logo
jjgreen
22 points
4 comments
March 16, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
the_biot
Somebody in the article mentions that it's a spectrum, not a binary, and she's right: you can't call it AI-free if your product is human-made but all the marketing is AI slop. I thought EEVBlog's Dave Jones had a good idea for exactly this kind of problem when advertising open source hardware [0]: a logo that clearly showed which parts were open. [0] https://www.eevblog.com/oshw/
7777777phil
Same economics as organic food labeling imo. Starts as a genuine quality signal, turns into a price premium, gets gamed until the certification means nothing. The harder problem will be (or already is) that most products will be partially AI-assisted and a binary label can't really capture "we used AI for the layout but a human drew every illustration." Good luck defining that boundary tbh.
karmakaze
What good is a certification/logo? That means they passed whatever proxy was used. Smells like a cash grab, as most certifications are or become. We'd need proof with a verifiable supply chain.