TMWA Artificial Intelligence Policy

Artificial Intelligence, specifically Generative Artificial Intelligence or simply AI or GenAI, are a series of tools that utilize specialized computing to create or restructure content. In the scope of wikis, this primarily manifests as text or images.

Common examples of Generative Artificial Intelligence systems include (but are not limited to):

• ChatGPT

• Deepseek

• BLOOM

• DALL-E

• Stable Diffusion

Use of Artificial Intelligence on Fables Sites

Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for TMWA websites is strictly forbidden. No exceptions. This includes content spaces, like articles, files, and templates, and non-content spaces like user pages. Tools such as AI language translations, image transparency conversions, and LLM content generation are some examples of forbidden AI use. There are three primary reasons for this verdict:

• Copyright: As a relatively new series of technology, legislation and case law in regards to Generative Artificial Intelligence has been generally scarce. As Generative Artificial Intelligence systems are designed to function off of existing copyrighted material with little sourcing information available, information cannot be properly attributed or verified.

• High frequency of error: Generative Artificial Intelligence takes from a variety of sources to generate its answers, with little or no support for the origin of its data. While answers may seem coherent or well-written initially, the contents of the work may be full of errors and inaccuracies that can easily slip under the radar under the pretense of truth. With no fallback to prevent misinformation from being added, the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence introduces an unnecessary risk to the truthfulness of information.

• Integrity: Our wikis are founded on the belief that all edits, large and small, are deliberate, well-thought-out efforts to document relevant materials. Content written or uploaded should be high quality, best effort work to meet this goal, and it is the held belief that tools such as Generative Artificial Intelligence circumvent this effort and quality standard for a subpar alternative, which does not align with the goals of the site.

We also serve to be a good steward of the community both on and offline. Given the high energy use to power Artificial Intelligence, it goes against the principles to use excessive power for tasks that do not necessitate it.

Use of TMWA Sites for Artificial Intelligence

Use of site materials is not eligible for use in Artificial Systems, particularly for Large Language Models (or "LLMs"). Do not use resources from TMWA Websites for Artificial Intelligence projects, regardless if it is for public or private use.

Text on most sites have been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 International license (CC BY-SA 4.0), unless otherwise specified. For the use, re-use, or modification of Creative Commons material to be legally compliant, the following conditions must be met:

• Attribution: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. For Fables wikis, this means at minimum each author of a given article is listed, in addition to the date and time of the most recent revision (which content is taken from), and a URL to the specific page history revision that content is taken from.

• ShareAlike: If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

It is believed that Generative Artificial Intelligence cannot adequately source materials used to fulfill the guidelines of CC BY-SA 4.0 (or other similar licenses), through an inability to specifically list links and authors, as well as the inability to differentiate between sources (therefore making the origin of work untraceable)—rendering all written text ineligible for use in Artificial Intelligence models.

The majority of images and other media files used on the site are copyrighted works, used in the belief of fair use as established in each site's respective Copyrights page. There is no current legal standing if Generative Artificial Intelligence is granted the ability to claim a fair use defense under US Copyright Law. For this reason, the use of media for use in Generative Artificial Intelligence is highly discouraged and is at the risk of the Artificial Intelligence operator.

TMWA reserves the right to enforce the copyright of their work if improperly used elsewhere, such as through the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Under suspicion of being scraped by an artificial intelligence, some IP addresses or IP ranges may face temporary blocks.