Humans create.
Machines imitate.
Human Intelligence® empowers genuine
Human Comix Creators.
Mission
Human Intelligence® ensures human graphic art and sequential storytelling remain under the control of human creators. We defend the bright line between authentic human creative work and the machine models that ingest and co-opt real human text and graphics.
To do this, we provide a foundational trifecta of authentication tools and services that prove human origin and protect IP: we verify humanity, certify your work as human-made, and safeguard the rights of artists, cartoonists, illustrators, plotters, inkers, colorists, editors, letterers and even… writers.
Because humans create.
Machines merely imitate.
Human Intelligence® protects, preserves and proclaims the value of human creative work.
Story
The Problem
The Solution
We deliver an essential technical authentication layer that enables human creators to certifiably prove the provenance of your creative work – so you can fight back against AI overreach.
We maintain an arsenal of registered trademarks and legal safeguards to assist graphix creators like you in retaining the rights to your published works.
How to Get Our Mark of Approval
When you are verified as a Human Creator, you receive a license to use our mark (Start here.)
Use of the registered Humanright™ 
trademark assures your audience that your work is human-made. The mark also notifies AI companies that your art, your sequences, your plot, and your writing cannot be used without permission.
About the 
Mark
The unique Humanright™ mark is a registered trademark that demonstrates to the world that you are a Human Creator and that your writing, your graphic art and your published books are Human Created.
We care about language. The registered mark transmits the same meaning in nearly 30 languages around the world: the mark can be used in a variety of ways to identify yourself and your creative work as genuinely human.
Tools: Our Technological Edge
Chain of Creation™
Human Intelligence® tools focus on provenance: rather than “detecting” AI in published work after creation, we follow certain tell-tale signs unique to human creative output. Our patent-pending systems don’t ingest your actual work at all – instead we examine the plume of activity each textual or graphic work carries with it, which helps us to reliably identify the chain of creation.™
Reliable Authentication
We deliver a proven layer of trust that reliably authenticates human creative work. Our proprietary method begins by locking down a creator’s biometrically-secured identity, verifying each creator as a natural person. Our system then analyzes both graphix and writing for specific markers that result from human creative processes. When we find these key attributes, we register the work as certified Human Intelligence® – i.e., work that we authenticate as having been actually created by a human.
Certified Human Photo — Brian BielmannProof of Human Authorship: Case Studies
BESTSELLING FANTASY
Terry Brooks
Certified Human Book
Terry Brooks is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty-five books, including the Genesis of Shannara novels Armageddon’s Children and The Elves of Cintra; The Sword of Shannara; the Voyage of the Jerle Shannara trilogy: Ilse Witch, Antrax, and Morgawr; the High Druid of Shannara trilogy: Jarka Ruus, Tanequil, and Straken; the nonfiction book Sometimes the Magic Works; and the novel based upon the screenplay and story by George Lucas, Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace.
NEBULA NOMINATED SF
Nisi Shawl
Nisi Shawl is the author of the 2016 Nebula Award finalist Everfair, and of the Tiptree Award-winning story collection Filter House, praised by Ursula K. Le Guin as “superbly written” and by Samuel R. Delany as “brilliant.”
Shawl is also known for Writing the Other: A Practical Approach, and for editing the 2019 multiple-award-winner New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color.
Certified Human Book
BESTSELLING LITERARY
Jonathan Evison
Jonathan Evison is a New York Times bestselling author. His work includes All About Lulu, West of Here, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!, Lawn Boy, Legends of the North Cascades, Small World, Again gain, and The Heart of Winter. As a teen, Evison was the founding member of the punk band March of Crimes, which included future members of Soundgarden & Pearl Jam.
Certified Human Book
POET & TEACHER
Joseph Fasano
Certified Human Book
Joseph Fasano is a renowned poet educated at Harvard University and Columbia University. Fasano teaches widely and is the author of two novels: The Swallows of Lunetto and The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing. His books of poetry are The Crossing, Vincent, Inheritance and Fugue for Other Hands. His nonfiction book The Teacher appeared in 2025 from Maudlin House.
MFA FACULTY
Katrina Hays
Katrina Hays is an award-winning and Pushcart Prize-nominated writer whose poetry, essays, and fiction has appeared widely. She was program assistant and guest faculty for many years at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University, where she received her MFA.
Katrina interned at Copper Canyon Press.
Certified Human Book
BESTSELLING LITERARY
Ned Hayes
Ned Hayes is a bestselling novelist and journalist whose books have been published around the world in many languages — most recently the international bestseller The Eagle Tree. His previous novels include the historical novel Sinful Folk, illustrated by Nikki McClure. Hayes co-founded Human Intelligence ® to protect the rights of authors.
Certified Human Book
Alliances: We Empower Comix Creators
Human Intelligence® contributes to technical advances that foreground the rights of human creators. Our team includes graphic artists, comix creators, artists, illustrators, writers and colorists. We are members of the Author’s Guild and the Copyright Alliance. Our key technical leads are contributing members of the Coalition for Content Provenance & Authenticity (C2PA) and the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI). We work with prominent publishers and creative guilds to provide graphic artists and writers with a viable voice in a changing world.
Authors Guild
copyright interests of
over 2M creators.
in the age of AI
News & Media
Press: Human Intelligence®
Human Intelligence® is now recognized as an official registered trademark by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. International plans are underway.
Listen & Read
Our team delivers new weekly content about human writers! Listen to podcasts by bestselling authors, influencers, and artists; read our weekly newsletter on Substack.
Brand & Media Kit
Human Intelligence® registered trademarks and ground-breaking human provenance work is recognized around the globe. Here are tools for media to accurately describe HI.
Contact Our Rights Team
Have questions about the (H) tools or how our tools can be used in a publishing workflow? Are you a literary agent and want to discuss how we can help you and your list of comix creators? Need to find out if a strip or a book is really created by a human? Excellent! We’d love to talk.
Writers Write to Us
Read More
Printable overview of our process and our work with literary partners worldwide.
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Human Intelligence ® does not use synthetic extruded content or generative toolsets.
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