AI Content Transparency

Some of the cover images on this site were made with AI image tools. Every one of them carries a visible label, applied at the point you first see the image — and the full register is published below.

The labels

Two labels are used, following the approach of the European Commission’s Code of Practice on transparency of AI-generated content:

AI GENERATED — the image was created wholly by an AI image tool.
AI MODIFIED — a real image was materially altered, or combined with AI-generated elements.

The artwork is the European Commission’s official label design, published for exactly this use. Labels are images with proper alternative text, so screen readers announce them too.

Where labels appear

The label rides on the image itself everywhere the image is shown: the article’s main cover (with a short caption beneath it linking back to this page), the article cards on the Articles page, the homepage, the About page, the related-articles row, and the search results the page builds in your browser. First exposure, every time — there is no page on this site where you can see an AI-made cover without the label on it.

One honest limitation: when an article link is shared to LinkedIn, Bluesky or a chat app, the platform fetches the raw image file to build its preview card, and that fetch does not carry the badge overlay. The machine-readable disclosure described next travels with the page metadata, but the visible label lives on this site.

Machine-readable disclosure

Alongside the visible labels, every article carries structured metadata naming how its cover image was made, using the IPTC Digital Source Type vocabulary in schema.org form — TrainedAlgorithmicMediaDigitalSource for AI-generated covers and CompositeWithTrainedAlgorithmicMediaDigitalSource for AI-modified composites. This is the same vocabulary the Commission’s work on content provenance points to, and it lets search engines and other machines distinguish AI-made images without reading the badge.

The register

Every raster cover image on the site is classified in a provenance register that the site itself reads when rendering pages — the table below is generated from that same file, so it cannot fall out of date. A cover cannot be added to the site without a register entry; the deployment pipeline refuses to publish one without it.

24 of 24 covers are labelled AI-generated or AI-modified. 22 of those labels are provisional: the visual evidence is strong but the tool used is still being confirmed with the author, and the register errs on the side of labelling until it is.

Article cover	Label	Status
The AI Engine Choice Is Not the Hardest Bit: A Practitioner Perspective on AI Adoption		Awaiting confirmation
AI-First: The End of the Form, and the Beginning of a Much Harder Question		Awaiting confirmation
AI Governance Is Where It Is At		Awaiting confirmation
Airbus Just Pulled Its Crown Jewels Out of the American Cloud		Awaiting confirmation
The Algorithm and the Aid Worker: A Guide to Responsible AI in Humanitarian Documentation		Awaiting confirmation
The American Kill-Switch: Why Europe Must Unplug from Digital Dependence		Awaiting confirmation
The Annual PDR: Is It a Helpful Ritual or a HR Hangover?		Awaiting confirmation
The Approve Button Is Doing a Lot of Work		Awaiting confirmation
The Audit You Are Dreading Is The One You Need		Awaiting confirmation
Beyond Oversight: How Micromanagement Crushes Neurodiverse Talent		Awaiting confirmation
Cornwall: The County at the Centre of the Map?		Awaiting confirmation
I Ditched Windows for a Sheffield-Built Linux Laptop. Here is What Actually Happened.		Awaiting confirmation
The Domino Principle: Understanding Interconnectedness in SMB IT for Stable Growth		Awaiting confirmation
The Grok Dilemma: Protecting People from Unaccountable Corporate Power		Awaiting confirmation
The Illusion of Intelligence: Over-Marketing AI and the Reckless Rush to Adoption		Awaiting confirmation
What is the Point of InfoSec if the Data Walks Out Through the AI Prompt Box?		Confirmed
The Last American Anchor: The Login		Awaiting confirmation
Residency Is Not Sovereignty		Awaiting confirmation
So You Think IT Just Installs Apps		Awaiting confirmation
The Sovereign Solution: How Proton Suite Offers a Viable Path to De-risk from US Tech Dependence		Awaiting confirmation
Sovereignty, Sold Separately		Awaiting confirmation
US Technology Lock-In, European Digital Sovereignty, and Vendor Revenue Destabilisation		Awaiting confirmation
Your AI Answers to a Foreign Government. Part 1: China vs America		Confirmed
The Case for European Digital Sovereignty in 2026: A Matter of Strategic Imperative		Awaiting confirmation

Article text and AI

The articles themselves are written by Adrian Hollister. AI tools are sometimes used the way a sub-editor would be — to challenge a draft, tighten wording, or check an argument — but every article is reviewed, edited and approved by a human who takes editorial responsibility for it, and the cover-image labels above describe the images, not the text. Under Article 50(4) of the EU AI Act, AI-assisted text that has been through human editorial review and is published under a person’s editorial responsibility is not required to carry a disclosure; the labels on this site are about images, where the obligation and the honest expectation are clearer.

What this site does not do

No chatbots or conversational AI interact with you here. No emotion recognition, no biometric categorisation, no deepfakes, no AI-generated or AI-cloned audio or video. If any of that ever changes, this page changes first.

The legal backdrop

Article 50 of the EU AI Act, applying from 2 August 2026, requires AI-generated and manipulated content to be marked and disclosed. Alongside it, the European Commission has published a voluntary Code of Practice on transparency of AI-generated content, setting out how signatories should mark and label such content. AltLibre is not a signatory — the Code is aimed at providers and large deployers of generative AI — but this site follows its deployer-side approach anyway: labels that are clear, distinguishable, accessible, and present at the first exposure. In two respects the site’s policy is deliberately stricter than the legal minimum: abstract AI illustrations are labelled even where the law would not require it, and provenance is recorded for every cover, labelled or not.

Corrections

Provenance judgements can be wrong in both directions. If you believe a label is missing or mistaken, email info@altlibre.com or use the contact page and the register will be corrected — visibly, since the badges and this page read from the same source.