{"slug": "ai-influence-level-ail-v1-0", "title": "AI Influence Level (Ail) v1.0", "summary": "A new rating system, AI Influence Level (AIL) v1.0, assigns creative content a score from 0 to 5 based on the degree of AI authorship, with 0 indicating no AI involvement and 5 indicating full AI generation. The system, introduced by an unnamed author on their website, aims to provide transparency about AI's role in creative works, and the author has already re-rated 24 posts on their site using the new scale.", "body_md": "Humans care who created things. Especially art. They especially care when the origin is in question, and more again when the origin might not be human.\n\nAI is yielding tremendous gifts, but it raises questions regarding what we read, see, and hear. How much of the article you just read was written by a human? Did ChatGPT write it? And what about the art for the image? Did the author purchase that from a real artist, or did they make it in Midjourney?\n\nIt's not always bad if there was some AI involved. The point is transparency. We'd like to know what we're getting, and where to give the credit.\n\nThis is a first attempt at rating creative content for its level of AI authorship. Any creative endeavor applies—from an article to an essay, to a painting to a song.\n\nThis rating system works on a scale from 0 to 5.\n\nThe levels get read too loosely, so to be precise about where the lines are.\n\nIf the text of the piece wasn't touched, it's AIL 0. Art, formatting, frontmatter, and publishing don't move the number. An AI-generated header image on a post you wrote alone is still AIL 0.\n\nAIL 1 is where the text got touched but barely: proofreading, a grammar fix, a transcript cleaned up.\n\nAIL 2 is where the AI started adding to the content rather than tidying it.\n\nI went back through everything on this site under those definitions and moved 24 posts, almost all of them down.\n\nThe badge next to each level is the mark for that level. AIL is reversed out of a solid panel, and the number sits beside a five-segment rail filled to the level. That rail is what makes it readable at a glance, without a legend and without knowing the system.\n\nThe colors run muted sage to dusty brick. I wanted the progression obvious and the judgment absent. A bright green at 0 would read as a gold star, and a bright red at 5 would read as an accusation. Neither is what this measures. A 5 tells you how the thing was made, and that's all it tells you.\n\nWe anticipate the following uses and pronunciations.\n\nAIL is pronounced \"ALE\", as in beer. Or like \"ail\" in ailment.\n\nMost common:\n\nThis essay is at AIL Level 0. 100% grass fed writing!\n\nOr:\n\nThe article itself is AIL 1, but all the art for it is AIL 4. Midjourney FTW!\n\nOr:\n\nI now use automation to create my blog articles, so all my content is either AIL 4 or 5!\n\nWhere the mark goes is up to you. On this site it sits in the margin next to the tags, and the note at the bottom of each post says the same thing in words. The badge is the glance; the note is the explanation.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-influence-level-ail-v1-0", "canonical_source": "https://danielmiessler.com/blog/ai-influence-level-ail", "published_at": "2026-08-20 08:16:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-20 08:45:02.684867+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["AI Influence Level (AIL)", "ChatGPT", "Midjourney"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-influence-level-ail-v1-0", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-influence-level-ail-v1-0.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-influence-level-ail-v1-0.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-influence-level-ail-v1-0.jsonld"}}