At the Homebody Community, we value genuine human connection and content. AI use is a temporary solution- not a permanent strategy.
As we prioritize this authentic, human-first approach, we are committed to being transparent about how and when we use AI to support our community and operations. This policy outlines our guidelines for using AI on our platform.
🛡️ A Tool for Privacy
We believe that your privacy and safety are paramount. Right now, AI can be a powerful tool for enhancing your anonymity and protecting your real-world identity while you participate in our community. We highly encourage the use of AI in the following ways:
- Avatars and Profile Images: Use AI image generators to create unique avatars or profile pictures to express your personality without revealing your actual appearance. You can be the real you, how you see yourself, while staying safe.
- Images of Your Space: When sharing photos of your home, use AI editing tools to modify or obfuscate identifiable details (e.g., blurring faces, removing specific brand logos). You can even feed AI a detailed description of your space and it will generate something that effectively shares your vibe.
- Usernames and Handles: Employ AI tools to generate creative, anonymous usernames that are distinct from any personal information you may use elsewhere. AI can help you come up with something memorable and distinct.
In these specific instances, AI is an asset that directly contributes to your privacy and security.
📝 Personal Content
The Human-First Rule: The core of our content, such as blog posts, forum posts, and group messages, must be created by people. We do not permit using AI to generate a full post or your complete message. We aim to preserve the unique voices and experiences of our community members.
Human-generated content is considered anything drafted entirely by a human, or where only basic editing has been performed by AI, such as for readability, spelling, or grammar.
AI-generated content is anything where AI did the bulk of the creative work, particularly in writing a draft. If it isn’t written in your unique voice, it undermines the site’s commitment to human connection.
Acceptable use of AI in your creative process includes:
- ideation,
- research (that has been fact-checked),
- outlining,
- generating keyword ideas,
- crafting SEO-friendly titles and headings,
- creating a hook or attention-grabbing line,
- and the presentation of your content
🎨 AI-Assisted Works
We welcome the sharing of diverse hobbies and creative pursuits, including non-textual works assisted by AI (art, music, design, etc.).
Guidelines for Low-Effort Works
To keep our main blog and article sections focused on human effort and narrative, we ask that you categorize your AI-generated creative works as follows:
- Low-Effort Works (Single-Prompt Generation): If a creative piece (e.g., an image) was generated using a single, or only a few, simple prompts with minimal human iteration, please limit its sharing to your personal gallery or a specific group/forum dedicated to that medium (e.g., an AI Art group).
- High-Effort Works (Refined, Edited, or Multi-Step): If the work involved extensive prompting, human editing, combining multiple AI outputs, or represents a larger artistic project, you are welcome to share it as a blog post or article, as long as you discuss your process.
Prioritizing Knowledge Sharing:
When sharing AI-assisted creative works, we encourage you to share the prompt itself and explain why it works to achieve your desired result. This provides valuable knowledge that helps others learn and improve their own workflow.
⚙️ Site Operations
We use AI to streamline some aspects of developing our website, which allows our team to focus more on building the community.
For custom content interactivity, for example, AI is much more effective of a choice than waiting until we have a coder in-house, or hiring someone to do little snippers of code for us at insanely expensive rates. We may have a volunteer coder someday, but we need the work done now. AI gets simple jobs done in minutes for mere pennies.
We are committed to transparency regarding these uses:
- Site Copy and Marketing: AI may be used to write or rewrite sales copy, marketing messages, site information, and onboarding materials. We may use AI to generate custom landing pages built for specific traffic sources.
- Custom-Coded Pages and Page Elements: We may use AI to generate webpages or parts of webpages to create custom looks not available through vanilla WordPress or the plugins our site uses. Sometimes, custom code is just better-performing and doesn’t slow down the site as much as the bloated solutions on the market.
- Newsletters and Digital Products: AI will initially be enlisted to assist in the production of newsletters and digital products to speed up their development. We will strive to keep these as human as possible after our initial growth phase.
- Automation: AI might be used to automate various site tasks, such as generating reports, updating information, and migrating users. It will handle some of the tedious and time-consuming tasks that are a drain on teammembers.
- User Support: We may use AI-powered chatbots for onboarding new members, assisting with customer service, and engaging with visitors when a human isn’t available. Please note that while initial email correspondence may be handled by an AI, your responses are routed to a human for follow-up.
🔎 A Temporary Solution
The work to build a website like this and have it look good is a lot more that you’d think. AI is a shortcut to allow us to focus on the really important content and community building for right now. It is not intended to be a permanent solution.
It is our plan to slowly but surely replace all AI-generated site copy with content that is human-made. AI content is too generic to really make use of it long term. And eventually, Google may penalize sites using AI. We need to get ahead of that eventuality.
The site admin is learning to code so that he can maintain the custom work and replicate it without the use of AI. There are repositories of open-source custom-coded page elements and UI that can be customized for our purposes once we have that skill in-house.
We are also hoping to find something like Wavatar to replace the need for AI-generated profile pictures. It assembles unique combinations of elements to make characters for each user. We’re looking into how we can employ Wavatar as the default generator for everyone’s profile pictures.
We might even curate a collection of diverse images from Pixabay that people can choose from to represent their character. There are many, MANY, royalty-free images we can use on the site. You don’t even need to add creator attribution when you use most of them.
So, in closing, AI isn’t ideal for this community, but it has its uses right now. The plan is to slowly phase it out, ending up with a 100% human-generated space.
