Philotes centers creators as people and authors—not interchangeable inputs in a content system. Our plain-language position is direct: no AI slop. Human creativity first.

The owner-approved policy direction is the Philotes Human-Created Content Standard. It prohibits fully synthetic video and images and prohibits AI-generated advertising, including campaign imagery, video, generated ad copy, and other promotional creative.

The standard does not reject technical tools. Human-created work may use AI-assisted editing, restoration, noise reduction, color processing, captioning, transcription, translation, accessibility support, and upscaling. Those tools may assist the creator or production team; they may not replace the human creator, fabricate a material performance, or misrepresent identity, consent, authorship, or provenance.

The standard is precise enough to define prohibited and permitted uses. A disclosure label does not make otherwise prohibited synthetic work acceptable.

Before contractual enforcement, the standard requires a Creator Agreement addendum and a per-submission certification. A report is not a finding. Suspected violations are reportable, but automated indicators may not decide the case.

For a substantiated violation, the approved standard requires a distinct Human-Created Content Policy Freeze, further human investigation, second-review confirmation, written notice, and an independent appeal. Those controls remain pending formal adoption and implementation.

Limited exceptions may be considered only when requested and approved before the proposed use. Any approval must define its scope, conditions, disclosures, and record requirements.

Human creators are not a legacy constraint on the Philotes model. They are the model.