A Human Made This
Something is disappearing from the internet, and most people haven’t named it yet. It isn’t quality, exactly. It isn’t even originality. What’s disappearing is the certainty that when you encounter something beautiful, a photograph, a piece of writing, a design, a piece of music, there is actually a person on the other side of it. Someone who chose every detail. Someone who cared.
That's the problem byahuman.org was built to solve.
Launching today, byahuman.org is a verified identity mark for human-made creative work. The concept is simple: a scannable, unique visual mark that creators, photographers, writers, designers, musicians, craftspeople, brands, can attach to their work to signal something that used to go without saying.
A human made this.
Not prompted. Not automated. Not assembled by a model at scale. Handcrafted. Thought through. Made by a real person who cared.
The mark works like a certificate of creative origin. Each one is unique to its creator. When someone scans it on a print, a website, a product, a publication, they're taken directly to the creator's verified profile: who made the work, when it was made, and the story behind it. No ambiguity. No wondering whether what they're looking at was generated in seconds or laboured over for months.
Here's what the creator's mark does:
Each mark is unique to its creator. No two are the same. It is scannable from anywhere: print, screen, product, packaging. It links directly to the creator and their verified profile. It verifies authorship and origin, recording when and by whom. It authenticates the work as human-made, a certificate, not just a label.
The timing is not accidental. Generative AI tools have made it trivially easy to produce content that looks considered, crafted, and original. For audiences, the result is a slow erosion of trust, an ambient suspicion that anything they encounter might have been produced without a human thought behind it. For creators, it's something sharper: the devaluation of years of skill, taste, and practice, now indistinguishable at a glance from something spun up in seconds.
byahuman.org doesn't take a position on AI itself. It takes a position on honesty. In the same way that organic certification tells you something true about how food was grown, or a hallmark tells you something true about the metal in a piece of jewellery, the creator's mark tells you something true about how creative work was made. It is provenance for the people who make things.
No guessing. No confusion. No hiding behind automation. Just real people, real work.
The platform is built for two kinds of people. The first is the creative: the photographer who shoots on film and wants their prints to carry that weight, the writer whose voice took years to find, the designer who still sketches by hand before opening a screen. For them, the mark is an act of authorship. A way of standing behind what they make.
The second is the brand: the publisher, the studio, the company that has decided transparency is not a liability but a signal of quality. In an environment where audiences are growing increasingly alert to what's real and what isn't, the mark is a competitive distinction. It says: we chose the harder thing.
byahuman.org is now open for creatives to register interest and join the founding waitlist. A separate track exists for collaborators, developers, designers, and organisations who want to help build the standard.
The name says it plainly. The mark says the rest.
byahuman.org
That's the problem byahuman.org was built to solve.
Launching today, byahuman.org is a verified identity mark for human-made creative work. The concept is simple: a scannable, unique visual mark that creators, photographers, writers, designers, musicians, craftspeople, brands, can attach to their work to signal something that used to go without saying.
A human made this.
Not prompted. Not automated. Not assembled by a model at scale. Handcrafted. Thought through. Made by a real person who cared.
The mark works like a certificate of creative origin. Each one is unique to its creator. When someone scans it on a print, a website, a product, a publication, they're taken directly to the creator's verified profile: who made the work, when it was made, and the story behind it. No ambiguity. No wondering whether what they're looking at was generated in seconds or laboured over for months.
Here's what the creator's mark does:
Each mark is unique to its creator. No two are the same. It is scannable from anywhere: print, screen, product, packaging. It links directly to the creator and their verified profile. It verifies authorship and origin, recording when and by whom. It authenticates the work as human-made, a certificate, not just a label.
The timing is not accidental. Generative AI tools have made it trivially easy to produce content that looks considered, crafted, and original. For audiences, the result is a slow erosion of trust, an ambient suspicion that anything they encounter might have been produced without a human thought behind it. For creators, it's something sharper: the devaluation of years of skill, taste, and practice, now indistinguishable at a glance from something spun up in seconds.
byahuman.org doesn't take a position on AI itself. It takes a position on honesty. In the same way that organic certification tells you something true about how food was grown, or a hallmark tells you something true about the metal in a piece of jewellery, the creator's mark tells you something true about how creative work was made. It is provenance for the people who make things.
No guessing. No confusion. No hiding behind automation. Just real people, real work.
The platform is built for two kinds of people. The first is the creative: the photographer who shoots on film and wants their prints to carry that weight, the writer whose voice took years to find, the designer who still sketches by hand before opening a screen. For them, the mark is an act of authorship. A way of standing behind what they make.
The second is the brand: the publisher, the studio, the company that has decided transparency is not a liability but a signal of quality. In an environment where audiences are growing increasingly alert to what's real and what isn't, the mark is a competitive distinction. It says: we chose the harder thing.
byahuman.org is now open for creatives to register interest and join the founding waitlist. A separate track exists for collaborators, developers, designers, and organisations who want to help build the standard.
The name says it plainly. The mark says the rest.
byahuman.org