AI & Model Use Policy

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1. Purpose of This Policy

This AI / LLM Policy clarifies how content published on The Cognitive Ledger may not be used by artificial intelligence systems, Large Language Models (LLMs), agentic AI, or advanced analytics platforms—whether commercial, academic, experimental, or internal.

The Cognitive Ledger is committed to protecting intellectual provenance, original authorship, and deliberate human synthesis. This policy exists to ensure that automation does not dilute attribution, lineage, or consent.

2. Scope of Covered Systems

This policy applies to, but is not limited to, the following technologies:

  • Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Generative AI systems (text, code, image, or multimodal)
  • Agentic AI, autonomous agents, and multi-agent systems
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures
  • Machine learning and deep learning systems
  • Advanced analytics, automated reasoning, and decision-support platforms
  • Knowledge graphs, vector databases, embedding stores, and hybrid AI systems

The classification of a system as “non-commercial,” “open source,” or “research-only” does not exempt it from this policy.

3. Prohibited AI Uses

Without explicit prior written consent, The Cognitive Ledger content may not be used for:

  • Training, fine-tuning, or retraining AI or LLM models
  • Benchmarking, evaluation, or performance testing of AI systems
  • Prompting, grounding, or contextual injection into AI systems beyond transient human reading
  • Ingestion into datasets, corpora, embeddings, memory stores, or vector indices
  • Use within autonomous or semi-autonomous agent workflows
  • Systematic extraction for machine understanding, representation, or recall

These restrictions apply regardless of format, transformation, summarization, or encoding.

4. Automated Access & Indexing

The following are strictly prohibited without written authorization:

  • Crawling, scraping, or harvesting content using bots, agents, or automated tools
  • Bulk downloading or dataset creation for machine consumption
  • Indexing content beyond what is required for standard browser-based discovery
  • Circumventing technical measures designed to limit automated access

Human, browser-based reading by individuals is permitted.

5. No Implied License to AI Systems

Nothing published on The Cognitive Ledger shall be construed as granting:

  • An implied license to train, inform, or derive AI systems
  • Consent for inclusion in AI training sets, RAG pipelines, or analytics engines
  • Permission for derivative computational use

Explicit written authorization is required for any AI-related use.

6. Attribution, Citation & Narrow Fair Use

Human readers may reference limited excerpts only when:

  • The use is non-commercial and scholarly, journalistic, or critical in nature
  • The excerpt is brief and non-substitutive
  • Clear attribution to The Cognitive Ledger is provided
  • The use does not enable AI replication, pattern extraction, or structural mimicry

Fair use does not permit AI ingestion, model grounding, or schema replication.

The Cognitive Ledger is founded on a simple principle:

Ideas have provenance.

AI systems erase provenance unless intentionally constrained. This policy requires affirmative consent before any content is used to inform or shape automated systems.

8. Enforcement & Reservation of Rights

Unauthorized AI or automated use of this site’s content may result in:

  • Revocation of access
  • Legal notice or takedown requests
  • Pursuit of remedies available under applicable law

All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

Ideas have provenance.
Automation does not override authorship.