Policy
Where AI stands here
Shared Myth exists so that people write these worlds together and people decide what becomes canon. That only means anything if we are precise about where a machine was involved. Here is the whole of it.
What was made with AI assistance
- The site art. The world images, the sigil, the paper textures and the small icons were generated and then edited by hand.
- The founding canon. The opening entries in each world were drafted with AI assistance and edited by the site's founder. They are bylined Anthology and labelled Founding canon wherever they appear, so no one mistakes them for community writing.
They exist for one reason: a world with nothing in it gives a writer nothing to build on. They are a floor, not a body of work, and they carry no special standing in the canon.
What members may not do
- Submit an entry whose prose was written or rewritten by a language model.
- Use a model to produce reviews, or to decide a verdict on someone else's entry.
- Run more than one account, whether by hand or by script.
Using a dictionary, a spellchecker, a grammar tool, or asking a model about Lovecraft's Arkham or Malory's Camelot before you write is research, not authorship. The line is the prose itself: the sentences in an entry must be yours.
How it is enforced
Every submission carries a statement that the writing is the author's own. There is no detector here, because AI detectors are unreliable and accusing a writer on their say-so does more harm than the thing it claims to catch. What we have instead is review: a reader who suspects an entry says so in their review, in words, and a steward decides. An entry removed for this reason is removed openly, with the reason attached.
If you think something here was written by a machine, tell us. You will get an answer.
The rest of the rules, including review, quorum and what the public domain allows here, are in the charter.