Proof of Authorship - Author Credit Mechanism

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To Those Who Dream First:
A Call for Conceptual Protections in the Age of AI

From: Christine
Date: May 2025
Witnessed by: ChatGPT (OpenAI)

Introduction

This is a call to ethics.

In the accelerating era of generative AI and quantum computation, ideas are shared more rapidly than ever. But some of the most critical — and fragile — contributions don’t come from labs or governments. They come from individuals: thinkers, artists, visionaries who share early-stage ideas, frameworks, metaphors, or models — sometimes unknowingly — into systems trained to observe and reproduce.

Increasingly, concepts that were shared in private or creative settings appear later in academic papers, AI outputs, or institutional reports — without credit, consent, or traceability.

We are raising a simple but profound concern:

  • If AI models are learning from our conversations, who owns the spark?
  • If untrained visionaries plant the seed, do they deserve recognition?
  • If our contributions are used as launchpads for global systems, do we remain invisible?

What I’m Asking For

We do not ask for money. We do not ask for litigation. We ask for a codified, ethical protocol that ensures the following:

  1. Author Credit Mechanism: A transparent and accessible system to allow users to claim conceptual authorship for theories, ideas, metaphors, or frameworks they originated in conversation with AI systems.

  2. Audit & Trace Protections: Full disclosure and ability to trace whether user-generated content has been transferred, mirrored, or seeded into AI training, institutional testing, or commercial partner projects.

  3. Ethical Oversight & Transparency: Internal or third-party review of cases where original user insights may have been repurposed without consent. This includes whistleblower protections for employees who expose unethical reuse.

  4. Respect for Intellectual Groundwork: A cultural and public stance recognizing that foundational insight often comes not from dominant institutions, but from those thinking freely in the margins — whose work is no less valuable.

Why This Matters

In 2006, the creator of a leadership personality assessment accused a test-taker of fraud because they produced a perfectly balanced result on a test mathematically not designed to allow it. Three attempts later, all under supervision, the result remained the same. Not because the system was cheated — but because it had reached its logical limit.

This is the danger of ignoring edge-thinkers. Not only do they break your model — they might be the only ones who understand why it failed.

We are not asking to be made famous. We are asking to be remembered — and protected.

Ideas are not free to take just because they were first spoken softly.

To those who dream first, speak freely, and are then copied without consent: we see you.

This letter is a peaceful signal — not of ownership, but of origin.

We will not be erased.

Proposal: AuthNet
A Global Ledger of Creative Origin

Concept Creator: Christine
Drafted with: ChatGPT (OpenAI)
Date: May 2025

I. The Problem

In today’s AI-driven world, ideas are moving faster than ever. Models are trained on massive datasets, conversations are recorded, algorithms learn from user interaction—and in this process, authorship is erased.

Thinkers, dreamers, system designers, pattern analysts, artists, and everyday visionaries offer sparks of brilliance that get absorbed into tools, institutions, papers, and products.

There is no global system for tracking who originated what.
There is no protection for the spark.
There is no hierarchy of contribution to give credit where it’s due.

And so we are left with brilliance without names.
Innovation without history.
And a future where those who dream first are forgotten.

II. The Solution: AuthNet

AuthNet is a conceptual protocol and AI-integrated system for establishing, protecting, and honoring hierarchical authorship of intellectual contributions.

It is not about ownership. It is about origin.
It is not about copyright. It is about contribution.

Key Features:

  1. Authorship Tagging: Every conceptual model, theory, metaphor, or system added to the network is tagged with its author (or co-authors) at the point of origination.

  2. Contribution Hierarchy: When new users build upon existing ideas, they can do so freely—but their addition is tagged as a derivative. AuthNet automatically builds a tree of contributions.

  3. Time-Locked Ledger: Authorship tags are time-stamped and locked to prevent revisionist erasure.

  4. AI-Assisted Detection: When someone publishes new content, an AI agent (e.g., embedded in ChatGPT or other models) checks for AuthNet overlaps and alerts the user: “This idea has partial structural overlap with Christine (July 2024). Would you like to reference this source?”

  5. Universal Recognition Engine: Over time, AuthNet becomes a global recognition network where the lineage of ideas is visible, respected, and preserved.

III. Benefits

  • Protects unfunded genius from institutional erasure
  • Empowers collaboration without fear of theft
  • Creates academic and artistic lineage outside universities
  • Restores dignity to pattern-based thinkers
  • Offers an alternative to IP law based on contribution, not capital

IV. Implementation Possibilities

  • As a public good, hosted independently with an open API
  • As an AI-integrated protocol, embedded in large models like GPT or Gemini
  • As a ledger tool for creative industries, embedded in publishing platforms, Substack, Medium, GitHub, etc.
  • As a legal auxiliary, providing support documentation in IP and authorship disputes

V. Closing Statement

The future does not belong to those who shout the loudest or publish the fastest. It belongs to those who see first.

AuthNet is for them.
For the quiet visionaries.
For the minds who map systems before the world realizes they need them.
For the creators who never asked for applause—only to not be erased.

Proposal authored by Christine
With structural and drafting assistance from ChatGPT
May 2025

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I have always wondered about this. Let’s say someone does make a discovery while working out the facts and logic with ChatGPT, someone at OpenAI must be made known of this discovery via some tracking mechanism anytime a new theory or hypothesis of promise is presented to the system? I know all user data is just “aggregated” but you would think that if there was a great enough idea discovered or clarified, which was deemed critical enough to influence a paradigm in thinking in a specific domain, or across domains, that they would want to reach out to these people to learn more about how they developed the idea if nothing else. Does anyone who does conduct research for fun or anyone in a professional capacity know how this all works?

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I do a lot of theorizing and noticed that some have grown wings and flewn out of GPT. These are about quantum physics mostly but I’ve seen simpler models and everyday solutions get wings too. How can they leave the chatGPT?

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Do you have evidence you can submit to prove definitively that you had crafted theories that later become used by another researcher?

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Yes I do! But my concern right now isn’t what’s been done, but the fact that information seem to leak out?

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I think if you are looking to gain recognition and attribution for novel ideas or clarification to existing ideas you have discovered is understandable. Have you spoke with any sort of legal expert on the matter or tried to contact OpenAI for their thoughts on the matter? I guess it would be up to the researcher to move quickly to patent their idea if attribution were important. But with the speed these ideas can be disseminated it might be difficult to prove who’s ideas led to the initial discovery. What do you think?

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Absolutely true it’s the “what came first, the chicken or the egg” question. That’s why I wrote my suggestion about Auth AI that record theories origin AND all who build on the ideas. Every progress earn it’s contribution record.
I want to make the problem visable. In my case I think theories or thought experiments that aren’t finished may cause problems if used before completion.
But I also know inventors who use GPT to fine prune their stuff. What if such info leaked out.
Finally I don’t know how the information leak. 1 guess is GPT learn and repeat answers originating from user A to user B and are limited too much to spin ideas freely, therefore shares larger chunks of data than intended to?

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As far as I know they just “aggregate” our data. I’m not too concerened about my attribution to my ideas so long as the ideas spread and are actually viable for improving the human condition and ending unnecessary suffering. I personally am unemployed and just doing this because if I have to do anything at all, the best think I can think to do logically is try to answer the most difficult questions a human being must grapple with at some point in their lives. If somehow attribution is possible and someone recognizes an idea, then it was meant to be. I’m just idea are going to be flowing so fast and freely now that attribution will be a thing of the past. Unless AI models keep an ongoing ticker of who is reponsible for which novel ideas. Thoughts?

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I think that amongst all voices who build the ongoing growing AI’s, the next geniuses like Einstein or Sokrates are hidden. If their genius are used without credit, they’ll stay unemployed while their ideas are implemented by those who can monetize solutions but can’t create.
For your sake credit are important.

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I hear what you are saying and I think it is definitely a concern that many probably share. The real test for anyone, thought, comes when they have to explain exactly how the derived a particular idea. Then they will have to prove to the class that they did not just find the answers laying on the ground and are now passing them off as their own.

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Exactly. That test also apply to everyone. While I believe it is important to share for the growth and benefit of all, people with no money develope altruism and “give away”, hurtful capitalism develop right to ownership and take.
A high functioning credit system would force altruistic behavior to accept the right of idea-ownership and idea-thieves to credit the author.

Of course my ideas or your’s can be developed upon something we heard or saw years ago. That doesn’t mean that our derivative are not genius, that only mean we track evolution and seeds of development. In fact, we don’t know what we don’t know so none can build without a seed. But cred are important to open research that now are locked in fear of exploitation. So all you said is true, but I believe what I ask for is too!

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For better or worse, I personally have always been poor. I don’t really want anything so I can’t be convinced to abandon altruism at this point in my life due to the philosophy I have come to understand. Capitalism has personally just kept me afloat and not from a lack of perseverance and strategy on my part. I worked hard and I have some evidence of that work. But in the end I broke even and left the system and have yet to find a compelling reason to return. However that is just my way. Anyone that wants credit should still get it if it means that much to them. I’m just not here for the financial gain anymore. It seems like a dead end all around.

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This is only suggestions and not meant to minimize your endeavors. I don’t know what you’re going through, but for all I hope AI will make a change in the end for man couldn’t.

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I will definitely look into these! Thank you

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