Going to be revising episode credits soon.

Should I add a "No AI" statement in the end-credits..? Right now, I just have the usual legal disclaimer about it being fiction.

I have mixed feelings about this.

It is a fact that there is no LLM or SD contribution to this animated film. Even had I wanted to use them, most of the animation was completed before 2022, so I didn't really have access to them. Since then, I've pretty much decided I just don't like them much.

I think my biggest concern is that using AI would introduce subtle biases into my work, and also remove the authorial fingerprint of myself and other contributors. The "voice" if you will.

Arguably, I have used "AI" to transcribe audio for behind-the-scenes video subtitles, although this is a quite different type of AI (apparently Vosk uses a neural-net system. If I switch to Whisper, that's a transformer architecture, apparently -- I do not actually understand the difference myself, FWIW).

I also have an interest in using machine-learning to aid in asset-management (e.g. it would be cool to have a DAMS where I could throw in my images, and then ask "show me all the shots with Hiromi Lerner in them" or "find fast paced music in the soundtrack archive"). I don't have this, but it seems like it could be useful, and remove a lot of laborious effort tagging files by hand.

I kind of hope it goes without saying that this was made by people and not humans.

And yet, there is no question that there is a great deal of automation here. I mean, that's how computer animation works. It just wouldn't be possible without it.

So I'm not at all sure I want to make any sort of promise (explicit or implicit) to never use AI tools. It seems like that could be a rash promise.