{"slug": "ail-badges", "title": "AIL Badges", "summary": "Simon Willison's Weblog introduced AIL badges, a visual indicator of AI influence levels on blog posts, complementing the text-based AI Influence Level framework established in 2023. The badges, ranging from AIL 0 to AIL 5, feature a five-segment rail and are designed to be glanceable, with each badge linking to the framework. The system allows authors to add an 'ail' field to post frontmatter or use a component to display the badge in the sidebar.", "body_md": "[AI Influence Level](/blog/ai-influence-level-ail) has been a text label since 2023. A line at the bottom of a post saying how much of it I wrote and how much the AI did.\n\nText at the bottom is fine for disclosure. It's bad for glancing. So here's a mark.\n\nSix badges, AIL 0 through AIL 5, one per level. Each links back to the framework.\n\nTwo zones. **AIL** is reversed out of a solid ink panel on the left, the way a film certificate card carries its issuing mark. The level and a five-segment rail sit in the tinted field beside it.\n\nThe rail is the part that makes it readable without a legend. Five segments, filled to the level. AIL 0 shows five empty ones, which is exactly the claim being made: no AI in it.\n\nThe ramp runs muted sage to dusty brick.\n\nI wanted the progression to be obvious and the judgment to be 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. AIL 5 isn't a failing grade. It's a reading.\n\nIn the sidebar it sits under the tags at eighteen pixels tall, which is small enough to ignore and large enough to catch:\n\nAdd `ail: N`\n\nto a post's frontmatter and the badge appears in the sidebar:\n\n```\n---\ntitle: \"Some Post\"\ntags: ai|future\nail: 3\n---\n```\n\nOr drop one inline anywhere with `<AilBadge level=\"3\" />`\n\n.\n\nThe note at the bottom of each post stays where it's always been. The badge is the glance, the note is the explanation, and they say the same thing.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ail-badges", "canonical_source": "https://danielmiessler.com/blog/ail-badge-examples?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=website", "published_at": "2026-07-31 05:31:26.552528+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-31 05:31:29.090069+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Simon Willison", "AIL", "AI Influence Level"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ail-badges", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ail-badges.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ail-badges.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ail-badges.jsonld"}}