AI-generated content on this site
AI tools come into the work in two places. The photographs are generated, and AI tools assist with research and with drafting text and code. Nothing an AI tool produces goes online unchecked. This notice adds to the labels on the content itself; it does not replace them.
Images
The photographic pictures on this site were created with AI tools. They appear at the top of every page and inside many guides, and show city scenes, server racks, a workbench, mailboxes, a micrometer and an abacus. None of them shows a real event, a real person or a real place that a reader could identify.
Every AI-generated image shown on a page is marked in four ways:
| where | marking |
|---|---|
| on the image | a visible "AI" badge in a corner |
| caption | "AI-generated image", next to the badge (on small homepage tiles only the badge is shown) |
| alternative text | ends with "(AI-generated image)" |
| file metadata | an IPTC DigitalSourceType marker for media created by a trained algorithm |
Because the metadata marker sits in the file itself, it is still there when you download the picture. Provenance markings in image files are not altered or removed.
Images that are not AI-generated
The two demo photographs and the audio file on the Romangie theme page are not AI-generated. They come from the theme's demonstration content, and the page credits that source. The audio is a 1921 jazz recording.
Diagrams, such as the client and server call sequence on the socket programming guide and the byte layout on the byte order page, are hand-drawn vector graphics, and so is the TobsCore logo. Their shapes encode facts from the page, so they are drawn and checked by hand.
Text
AI tools support research and drafting. Before a text is published, a person reviews it for substance and checks its facts:
- version numbers, default values, limits and counts are compared with the man page, the source code or the primary documentation of the tool;
- claims about behavior are reproduced on a real system;
- wording that only sounds right is cut.
When a fact cannot be confirmed, it is left out rather than phrased vaguely.
Code
Code listings are written with AI assistance. Each one is compiled or executed before publication on the versions named in the page's tested line, and the output printed under it comes from that run. Compiler warnings stay in that output instead of being hidden. When a long log is shortened, the cut is marked with ... and the text says what was removed.
Editorial responsibility
Editorially responsible: the TobsCore editors, [email protected].
If you find an AI-generated image without its label, or a statement that reads as generated rather than checked, write to that address and name the page and the image or sentence. One case that does come up is a cropped copy of an image shared elsewhere. The crop may cut off the visible badge, while the IPTC marker in the original file can still be read.