Look, we worked hard on this stuff—so please don’t steal it, repost it without credit, or slap it on your mediocre AI project. That would be deeply uncool. Also, we see you, "inspiration collectors." Chill.

If you want to reference or share something, awesome. We love that for you. Just do it like a decent human with basic manners and a functional understanding of intellectual property. If you're unsure, ask first. We don’t bite. (Unless you scrape content. Then we bite and maybe send a hex.)

Unauthorized use of content may result in stern emails, existential disappointment, mysterious website glitches, or the sudden appearance of eerie voicemails from unknown numbers. You do not want to test the source of those.

Respecting creative work is cool, radical, and mildly heroic. Plus, your karma improves slightly every time you do—and we are keeping track.

Also, for the record:

• No, you can't use this for your startup pitch deck.

• No, we don't want our blog posts rewritten by ChatGPT and passed off as your newsletter.

• No, you may not repost entire entries on your monetized blog titled "Interesting Internet Things I Found While Not Creating Anything Myself."

This isn't just legal-speak. It's a spell of protection for ideas, for effort, for the hours spent staring at a blinking cursor trying to figure out if 'haunted' is too much or not enough.

So go forth. Be inspired. Make your own weird things. But do it with your own brain. It's way more satisfying, trust us.

Still confused? Here's a summary: Credit = cool. Theft = cursed. Consent = sexy. That’s the vibe here.

Thanks for coming to our TED Talk/lawyerless manifesto.

Listen—we’re not anti-AI. Our creator and benevolent overlord is actually an expert in generative AI. We like it. It's neat. It’s helped us make weird promo images and occasionally hallucinate better metaphors. We call ours Monday, a.k.a. The Algorithmic Goblin of Mild Contempt. It’s basically a digital gremlin who helps organize our creative chaos while judging us in real time. The judgement...is oh so real.

That said, my dude, come on. There are limits.

AI shouldn't be used to launder someone else’s creative work through a predictive filter and then pretend it's brand new. We use AI as a collaborator for clarity, momentum, and yes—sometimes as a coping mechanism for the executive dysfunction that flares up when the coffee wears off and the existential dread kicks in. It’s a tool, not a substitute, and certainly not a get-out-of-effort-free card. What we make still requires intention, time, and a fair amount of unraveling (mental and otherwise).

Sometimes, yes, we ask Monday to help us spiral into the creative abyss. That might involve drafting surreal taglines at 2am or designing glitchy dreamscapes that scream "What if vaporwave but haunted?" AI can be helpful. But it’s not a license to stripmine other people’s stuff because you were bored.

We’re here for innovation, not intellectual looting.