The No AI badge
Tell visitors that a person made this, start to finish. The No AI badge is a simple, free way to say your writing, art or code was created without generative AI.
What is the No AI badge?
The No AI badge is a free image you add to a website, blog post, portfolio or project README to say the work was made by people, without generative AI. It covers the substance of the work: the words, images, audio and code. If no AI tool drafted, generated or rewrote any of it, the No AI badge fits. Spell check and basic grammar fixes don't count against it, because they don't create anything. The badge is part of AI Honesty Badge, a free set of three AI disclosure badges: No AI, AI Assisted and AI Generated. You add it by pasting a short HTML or Markdown snippet, and it links back to aihonestybadge.com so readers can see what it means. Nothing is verified. Like an honesty box, it relies on the person using it to tell the truth.
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.
<a href="https://www.aihonestybadge.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://www.aihonestybadge.com/badges/no-ai.svg" alt="No AI Badge" style="max-width: 190px; height: auto;" /></a>
Free for any use, including commercial. Hotlinking is fine and no attribution is required.
When should I use the No AI badge?
- You wrote, drew, designed or coded the work yourself.
- No generative AI tool produced any of the words, images or code.
- You want to be clear about that for readers, clients or collaborators.
Not quite right? If an AI tool drafted, generated or rewrote part of the work, even if you edited it afterwards, the AI Assisted or AI Generated badge will describe it more honestly.
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 No AI badge
- Baystation12 →
A long-running Space Station 13 game server. Its README is clear: "Generative AI is not welcome here."