The AI Assisted badge
Most work made today sits somewhere in the middle. The AI Assisted badge says you did the thinking and made the decisions, with AI helping along the way.
What is the AI Assisted badge?
The AI Assisted badge is a free image you add to a website, blog post, portfolio or project README to say a person led the work and AI helped. That help might be brainstorming, drafting, editing, generating some of the images, writing some of the code, or checking facts and logic. What makes it AI Assisted rather than AI Generated is who's in charge: a person decides what the work is, shapes it, edits it and signs off on the result. It's the most common badge, because most work made today sits somewhere in the middle. It's one of three free AI disclosure badges from AI Honesty Badge, alongside No AI and AI Generated. You add it with a short HTML or Markdown snippet that links back to aihonestybadge.com. Nobody checks it. It works because the people using it are honest about how their work was made.
Add it to your site
Paste it wherever you want the badge to appear: a footer, an about page, the top or bottom of a post, or a project README. Use HTML for websites and Markdown for GitHub. Either way it's a plain image link, so there's no JavaScript to load.
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Free for any use, including commercial. Hotlinking is fine and no attribution is required.
When should I use the AI Assisted badge?
- You led the work and AI helped, with ideas, drafts, images, code or checks.
- A person shaped, edited and signed off the final result.
- You'd rather be upfront about the help than leave people guessing.
Not quite right? If AI produced most of the work and your role was mainly prompting and reviewing, the AI Generated badge is the more honest choice.
Like an honesty box, nobody checks. The badge works because people value being told the truth.
No AI vs AI Assisted vs AI Generated
| Badge | Who made it | What AI did | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
 | A person, start to finish | None, beyond spell check and basic grammar fixes | A blog post you wrote and edited yourself |
| A person, with AI helping | Ideas, drafts, edits, some images or code, fact and logic checks | A post you drafted with ChatGPT, then rewrote and edited line by line |
 | Mostly an AI tool | Produced most of the work while a person prompted, picked and reviewed | An AI-written article or AI image, lightly edited before publishing |
Tricky cases
- “I used AI to translate my writing”
- AI Assisted. The ideas and the original words are yours, and AI changed the language.
- “AI made the header image, but I wrote every word”
- AI Assisted for the post as a whole. If the distinction matters to your readers, say which part AI made.
- “A grammar tool rewrote some of my sentences”
- Fixing spelling and grammar is still No AI. Rewriting sentences for you makes it AI Assisted.
- “An AI coding assistant wrote parts of my project”
- AI Assisted if you designed it, reviewed the code and understand it. AI Generated if it wrote most of it and you mostly prompted and tested.
- “I heavily edited an AI-generated image”
- AI Generated. The badge describes where the work came from, and it started with AI. Mention the editing if you're proud of it.
Who uses the AI Assisted badge
- shylands.com →
The blog of Steven Hylands, a founder & designer in Belfast writing about AI and how work is changing.
- markhall.dev →
Mark Hall, WordPress developer. Uses the badge on blog posts where AI generated the images or checked the logic.
- T Cloud Public provider →
The Crossplane provider for T Cloud Public, Deutsche Telekom's cloud, built with AI assistance.