Publishing platform Medium has made changes to its publishing terms & conditions.
It said: The clear first step for us around AI-generated Content is related to transparency and disclosure, and so we’ve updated our distribution standards to include an AI-specific guideline:
We welcome the responsible use of AI-assistive technology on Medium. To promote transparency, and help set reader expectations, we require that any story created with AI assistance be clearly labeled as such.
Team Medium said going along, it could make further changes in this policy related to AI. But for now, it believes that “creating a culture of disclosure, where the shared expectation of good citizenship is that AI-generated Content is disclosed, empowers readers.” This, it pointed out, allows readers to choose their own reaction to, & engagement with, this kind of work, & clearly understand whether a story is machine- or human-written.
For now, when Team Medium encounters Content that it finds is AI-generated but not disclosed, it will not distribute it across Medium’s network.
