AI Usage Scale · Level 4 of 0–5

Prompted

AI produced the substance and the form. You asked, you checked, you are accountable.

A model produced both what the work says and how it says it, from a prompt, template, or brief that carried little original, work-specific substance of your own. A human meaningfully reviewed the finished work, checked material claims where necessary, and takes responsibility for publishing it.

This is the level when

Asking a model for content on a topic and publishing it after review
Generated marketing copy, product descriptions, or social posts, reviewed before going out
Stock imagery generated from a short prompt and checked before use
AI-written code you read and tested before merging

This is not the level when

Work built on knowledge, data, or direction that is genuinely yours — that is Level 3
Publishing without a human reading it — that is Level 5

Examples

"Write ten posts about diabetes" — read, corrected, published.
Product descriptions generated for a catalogue and reviewed by a person.
A generated header image, checked for errors before it ships.
A summary of a document produced by a model and verified against the source.

Say it in a sentence

Paste one of these into a byline, an article footer, a video description, a search-result description, or an email signature. No image required — a declaration that only works as a picture is a declaration half the web cannot read.

Short — for a byline or a bio

AI Usage Scale: Level 4 — Prompted.

Medium — for an article footer or a meta description

Produced by AI from a prompt; reviewed by a person who takes responsibility for it. Level 4 on the AI Usage Scale.

Long — for an editor's note

A model produced both the substance and the form of this work. A person asked for it, read it, checked it, and takes responsibility for publishing it. This is Level 4 on the AI Usage Scale.

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