HOW WE USE AI
AI & Creative Tools Policy
How AI helps, where people lead, and where we draw the line.
Last updated: September 2026.
We sometimes use AI as part of our creative process. A person decides what gets made, what gets kept, and what gets published.
We never use your words, your work, or anything personal you share with us to train AI models. We don’t invent people, and we don’t misrepresent how something was made.
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How we see AI
There’s no single right way into the creative process. Some people can start with a blank page. Others need a prompt, a constraint, a reference, a template, or just something to push against.
AI is sometimes that something. It turns a vague idea into a thing you can look at. It gives you a place to start on a day when starting is the hard part.
It’s also an access tool here. DIYvinci is built by people who work with the brains and bodies they’ve got, and some days AI is the difference between something getting made and nothing getting made. We’re not going to pretend otherwise.
Using support doesn’t make the work less yours.
True for you. True for us.
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How we use it
AI helps us brainstorm, draft, edit and organize. It helps us try visual directions and make variations to choose between. It does a fair amount of research and small business admin. Sometimes it generates visual elements that end up inside a larger finished piece.
Its role changes from project to project. What doesn't change: a person sets the direction, makes the calls, and decides when something is done.
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What we won't use it for
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Training AI on you. Your words, your work and anything personal you share with us are never used to train AI models. The tools we use have training switched off. If AI helps us word a reply, a person still writes it and sends it.
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Standing in for a person. Community replies and messages to members come from a human. If it looks like you're talking to one of us, you are.
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Inventing people. No made-up testimonials, reviews, customer stories or endorsements. When we share a personal experience, it belongs to the person who lived it.
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Replacing the artists we work with. We commission human artists. We don't use AI to cut them out.
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Misleading descriptions. We won't call something hand-drawn, hand-painted, photographed or entirely human-written if that isn't what happened.
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About Ella
Ella is a character. She was made up here, and her personality and her voice on the page are written here. Her look started as an original drawing. When we need new images of her quickly, AI produces them from that drawing. Her spoken voice and her animations are AI-generated.
Right now, when Ella replies to you, a person is writing it. If that changes, we'll say so here and on her profile.
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When we'll tell you
We don't list every tool behind a project, the same way we don't list every brush, filter or piece of software. But if AI generated the main artwork in something you're buying, the product page says so. That includes anything sold with commercial use rights.
If you want to know how a particular piece was made, ask us. We'll tell you.
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What you use is your business
This policy is about how we work. It isn't a standard we're holding you to. If AI helps you get started, get unstuck, or get around something your brain or body is making difficult today, that's your call and it's a good one. We're not policing anyone's tools.