Understanding VerifiedHuman
Make your process understandable.
A clear commitment is stronger when an audience can understand what you actually made.
Start with an accurate account.
Describe your role in the work: what you wrote, captured, composed, performed, or produced. If collaborators or AI systems contributed, say what they did. Specific language is more useful than a broad claim that something is “100% human.”
Keep the evidence your process produces.
Drafts, sketches, source photographs, recordings, notes, and version history can help explain the development of a work. Keep them in a way that makes sense for your practice. They are useful context, not a new documentation requirement imposed by this page.
Use the mark within its scope.
VerifiedHuman makes a commitment to a shared standard visible. It does not provide forensic proof of a file’s origin, settle a copyright dispute, or guarantee that a third party will accept your account. The standard for your field explains the commitment you are making.
Disclose assistance where people can find it.
A short note in the credits, description, or linked work page can explain a material AI contribution. Name the essential human work as clearly as the assistance. Technical metadata can support that account, but an audience should not need specialist software to read it.
Let the work and the account support each other.
Your audience should be able to understand the label, see the relevant standard, and know who is responsible for the claim. That is the relationship VerifiedHuman is designed to support.
Make your commitment.
Read the standard for your field, then put your name behind it.
Choose your standard