About the Stay Human record
Who writes this site, why it is anonymous, what it will not cover, and the conflict of interest stated on the record.
What the site does
Most writing about AI online is either panic or marketing. This site keeps receipts instead. It does three things, and turns down anything that is not one of them:
- The record. A quarterly gathering of the newest published measurements of the machine internet — bot traffic, the share of new writing that is AI-generated, detection reliability, fraud losses — each with a named source and a date, and each stated with what it does not prove.
- The machinery. Plain-language explanations of how AI systems are actually built, tested, and run: what a training run is, what the physical substrate looks like, who the labs are, and which questions remain genuinely open.
- The defence. Practical, hands-on skills for recognising synthetic text, voice, and video, and for surviving the fraud that now uses them — including the household habits that work regardless of how convincing the fake becomes.
What it is not
It is not anti-AI. The person writing it makes AI content for a living, thinks the technology is often genuinely useful, and says so on the pages where it is true. It is not a prediction site: forecasts quoted here that failed are kept on the page, marked failed. And it is not an accusation engine — detection tools are, by independent testing, too unreliable to say with confidence that a specific piece of work was machine-made, so this site does not claim otherwise about anyone.
Worry is warranted; hostility is a different thing. Automated traffic passed half of the web. Roughly half of new articles are machine-written. Nearly $900 million was lost to AI-assisted fraud in a single year in one country, with older people hit hardest. Those are the reasons this exists. They are also not the end of the internet, and the site says that just as plainly.
Who writes it
The site is written under a persona, the writer, by someone working in generative AI — producing images, text, and video with these tools daily. The anonymity is for personal privacy, and it is stated rather than hidden.
Nothing here rests on the writer's authority. Every claim traces to a named institution with a publication date, so a reader never has to trust the writer — only to check the arithmetic. The sourcing rules are written out on the method page, and mistakes are logged publicly on the corrections page.
The perspective is the point: this is written from inside the industry making the content, not from outside it. That is also the conflict of interest, disclosed in full on .
How the site is made
The exhibits are built with machine assistance and edited by hand. The 3D scenes, generated imagery, and illustrative examples are synthetic and labelled as such wherever they appear. Fictional framings — the halls, the archetypes, the games — are marked as fiction. The figures are not fiction, and never share a page with invented ones without a label between them.
Using this material
Quoting, citing, and linking are welcome, including by journalists and researchers. Please cite the underlying source alongside this site where one is named — that is where the measurement came from. If a figure here is wrong, the correction belongs on the public log, not in a quiet edit.