{"slug": "who-or-what-generates-images-for-eff", "title": "Who (or What) Generates Images for EFF?", "summary": "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced that all images used on its blog posts, donation pages, and shop items are created by human designers, not AI image generators, with rare exceptions. The organization will add a credit line 'Image created by EFF' to each banner image, and will specify any AI-generated elements and the generator used in exceptional cases. EFF's design team made this decision to maintain brand consistency, while the organization continues to defend the rights of technologists and the public to use image generators legally.", "body_md": "We’ve had a few questions from EFF supporters lately, asking whether the images we use on our blog posts, or on [donation](https://supporters.eff.org/donate/join-4--wsid) and [shop](https://shopeff.org/) items, have been created with AI image generators. We’d like to answer these questions and clarify our internal policy regarding image creation.\n\nEFF images are all made by human beings, not by automated image generators, with very rare exceptions. This is an internal decision made by our small design team, for the following reasons:\n\nTo be as clear as possible, we are now adding a small credit in the lower righthand area of each banner image that will read “Image created by EFF.” As mentioned earlier, there may be rare exceptions, when an EFF designer uses an automatically generated image as a small element in a larger illustration. In these cases, we will indicate that use with additional text, specifying the elements involved, and naming the image generator used.\n\nWe hope that by describing our internal design thinking, we are answering the questions we are getting without confusing anyone about EFF's various and nuanced positions on the issues raised by image generators. As with past technological developments, we continue to defend the rights of technologists to develop these powerful tools, as well as the [right of the public](https://www.eff.org/pages/ai-and-fair-use#main-content) to make legal and legitimate use of them. Ultimately, EFF's design team has made a choice we feel is consistent with EFF's brand and look, and it's a decision we think every user gets to make for themselves.\n\nAnd don't forget: because all of our images are [CC-By](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en), you are free to use, share or remix our any image we create (we ask that you include a credit to EFF). If you need hi-res versions, you can find some on our [Flickr page](https://www.flickr.com/photos/electronicfrontierfoundation/), or you can email us directly with any requests. And you can enjoy some of the art we create on gifts you receive when you donate to EFF!\n\nGet awesome human-generated art as a thank you gift!", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/who-or-what-generates-images-for-eff", "canonical_source": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/who-or-what-generates-images-eff", "published_at": "2026-08-11 20:24:25+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-11 21:42:40.508027+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-ethics", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Electronic Frontier Foundation", "EFF", "Creative Commons", "Flickr"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/who-or-what-generates-images-for-eff", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/who-or-what-generates-images-for-eff.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/who-or-what-generates-images-for-eff.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/who-or-what-generates-images-for-eff.jsonld"}}