Jim W. Ko

This isn’t about panic or purity.
It’s about publishing with eyes open — and documenting consent (or refusal) while the rules are still being written.

Awareness isn’t outrage.
It’s preparation.

📖 Executive summary + preview: lnkd.in/g5_R3S7p

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Starting in 2026, the Guide expands with Platform Report Cards —
independent, step-by-step breakdowns of how major platforms handle AI training and opt-outs.

First up: LinkedIn, Instagram, and Anthropic.

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A key premise of the Guide:
The toolbox is mostly empty — because it was never built for AI.

Opt-outs are fragmented.
Enforcement is uncertain.
Consent is often implied, not asked.

Clarity is the first real defense.

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The Guide explains:
• how creative work quietly became AI training data
• where copyright does and doesn’t apply
• how platform policies fill the gaps (often badly)
• and which opt-outs actually exist — today

No hype. No false promises.

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That’s why The AI Rights Project just released
The AI Rights Guide™ to Opting Out of AI Training.

It’s not a manifesto.
It’s a field guide.

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The uncomfortable truth:
Under current law and platform rules, the answer is not much.

But “not much” isn’t the same as “nothing.”
Knowing the difference matters.

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Banner for The AI Rights Guide showing a butterfly on the left, a translucent faceted prism behind the title text, and a rainbow beam emerging from the prism beside the subtitle ‘Opting out of AI Training.’

We keep arguing about AI training.
Lots of anxiety. Plenty of handwringing.

Fewer people ask: What can creators actually do about it — right now?

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Independent.
Nonpartisan.
Public-Interest Driven.

Thanks to everyone who’s been following the early momentum. Much more to come.

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#PublicInterest

We’re also launching the AIRights Advocacy Certification Program to help students understand AI’s impact on creativity, opportunity, and democratic participation.

Real skills. Real context. Real rights.

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The AI Rights Project: Empowering Students, Creators and Citizens in the AI Age Nonpartisan nonprofit launches to help students, creators, and citizens understand and assert their rights as artificial intelligence reshapes daily life....

Full press release here 👇
🔗 www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

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Our key initiatives include:

• Know Your AI Rights™ eBook
• Prisms + Fault Lines (rights-based analysis tools)
• AI-Simulated Realism Disclosure Act (Arizona)
• AI Training & Copyright Fairness Act (national)

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People know AI is changing everything—but they don’t have clear guidance on how it affects their rights, work, opportunities, or civic voice.

That’s the gap we’re working to close.

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Parrot by itself: A stylized robotic parrot perched on a branch, built from interlocking metallic plates with orange and blue feathers and a single circular yellow eye. The letters “AI” are overlaid on its chest. Designed as the “For Students” emblem of The AI Rights Project, symbolizing learning, critical inquiry, and vigilance about artificial intelligence. Extended version: A cybernetic parrot with articulated metal feathers in shades of orange and blue sits alert on a branch against a muted green background. A glowing yellow eye and the letters “AI” over its chest highlight the theme of artificial intelligence. Created as the “For Students” icon and headline logo for The AI Rights Project, the parrot references the influential ST0CHASTIC PARROTS research highlighting limits and risks of large language models—an important milestone in Responsible AI and academic discourse.

AI is reshaping daily life faster than the public can keep up.

Today we published a national press release about why rights-based, independent AI education is becoming urgent for students, creators, and communities.

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#AI

From the desert sunrise to the digital frontier 🌞💻—
transparency starts here.
Join us.
airightsproject.org/join
#AITransparency #EthicalAI #SyntheticMedia #ArizonaInnovation #DemocracyInTheAIAge #6Pillars10AIRights

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The AI Rights Project is a nonprofit public-education initiative operating within the IRS § 501(h) limits on lobbying.
Our Form 1023 application for 501(c)(3) status is pending.
We’re building a new model of civic tech advocacy—transparent from day one.

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Our campaign’s first target: disclosure laws that tell us when AI is simulating reality.
Political ads, product demos, endorsements, even avatars—
if it looks or sounds real, we should know when it’s synthetic.

That’s not censorship.
That’s clarity. 🧭

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If not us, then who?
If not now, then when?

Change doesn’t come from “someday.”
It starts with people who refuse to accept “inevitable” as destiny.
#AITransparency #AIRights

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If you believe:
✅ Transparency is a right, not a privilege
✅ Accountability must come before automation
✅ Civic tech can be independent

Then join or sponsor AIRights today.
Every mbship (even the free Tier 1) helps keep this work nonpartisan & public-focused.
➡️ airightsproject.org/join <6/10>

🌵 Starting a grassroots campaign from the Arizona desert... ✨
“There outta be a law”?
We’re writing one—for all of us.

If you believe independent voices matter in shaping AI’s impact on society, this is your moment.

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We’re building this effort from scratch—from the desert sand up. 🏜️

No big tech funding. No partisan backers. Just people who believe that transparency is a right, not a privilege.

Because truth in the AI age shouldn’t depend on fine print.
Want to be part of it?
➡️ airightsproject.org/join

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Transparency ≠ restriction. It’s about protecting trust—the cornerstone of democracy and creativity.
As framed in Prism No. 2—“The Right to Transparency & Freedom from Undisclosed AI-Simulated Realism”—every person deserves to know what’s real and what’s not.
🔗 airightsproject.org/ebook/part-v... <3

Our first policy initiative—the AI-Simulated Realism Disclosure & Transparency Act—begins here in Arizona.
A commonsense step to make sure that when you see or hear something online—a political ad, celebrity endorsement, or product demo—you’ll know when AI was used to simulate realism. 🤖➡️🎭<2/10>

Minimalist desert sunrise scene in warm orange and gold tones with silhouetted saguaro cacti. A triangular prism near the sun refracts a soft spectrum of light across the sky, symbolizing transparency and clarity. The text reads “Transparency Starts Here – The AI Rights Project – Launching the AI-Simulated Realism Disclosure & Transparency Act.” The image evokes Arizona’s desert landscape and the beginning of a grassroots movement for AI transparency and accountability.

From the Arizona desert, a new movement for AI transparency is taking root. 🌵✨
AI is reshaping how we learn, create, and connect—faster than our laws or ethics can keep up.

Our's mission is to empower students, citizens, & creators to assert their rights in the AI age.
👉 airightsproject.org
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Come support the 🎨 [AI-assisted] arts!
Use code AIFILM3 for a discounted ticket → www.aifilm3.com

#AIFilm3 #AIArt #IPLaw #Arizona #FilmFestival #CreativeAI

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Join us Friday @ noon for a panel with
Darren Frankel (Adobe), Dustin Hollywood, Louie Pecan & CKHMOD.

We’ll dig into how AI is reshaping art, authorship, and ownership—and what creators can do about it.

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🎬 AI Film³ Festival
📍 Arizona Center, Downtown Phoenix
🗓️ Oct 30 – Nov 1

Come see what happens when art meets algorithm—and decide for yourself whether AI-assisted creativity “counts.”

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“Wait—who let the lawyer onto the film festival panel?” 😅

Guilty. I’ll be the resident IP attorney among real artists at the AI Film3 Festival this weekend in Phoenix.

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Creators, developers, lawyers, students—this affects all of us.
Your rights shouldn’t vanish the moment you use a new tool.
Join the conversation.👇

💬 Register free to join us for this live conversation.
👉 lnkd.in/ggVnVhAS

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I’ll be speaking on this topic — Who Owns What AI Creates? — for the Global AI & Law Network on Nov 5, 2025 — 8PM SGT / 7AM EST.
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Figure showing ‘Enigma Rose,’ an AI-assisted work by Kris Kashtanova, analyzed in the U.S. Copyright Office AI Report Part 2 on Copyrightability (Jan. 2025). The figure compares the user-supplied creative elements to the AI-generated result. On the left: a handwritten prompt describing ‘a young cyborg woman with roses coming out of her head, photorealism, cinematic lighting, hyper-realism, 8k, hyper detailed.’ In the center: a simple black-ink line drawing of a woman’s face with flowers and leaves extending from the top of the head. On the right: the AI system’s output — a photorealistic female face missing the upper portion of the skull, replaced by three red roses and vine-like stems matching the drawn shapes.

Here’s an example from the U.S. Copyright Office’s Jan 2025 report:
A simple sketch + text prompt → a stunning photorealistic image.
Who’s the author? Who holds the rights?
That’s the fight right now.