There is a new question attached to almost every piece of content: how much of this was made by a person, and how much was made with a machine?
That question is understandable, but the usual answer is too simple. “Did you use AI?” treats a person who used a tool for research the same as a person who accepted an unedited generated draft. Those are different creative processes.
Human Quotient is an attempt to make that difference easier to express. It is a self-assessment: a creator attests to how much human effort, intention, and judgment shaped the work.
It is a vocabulary for describing the relationship between a creator, their tools, and the work they deliver.
The scale runs from Generated to Direct. The endpoints are useful because they describe distinct processes, but most work will sit somewhere in between. That middle is not a problem to solve. It is where much of the real work happens.
Human Quotient does not ask anyone to use AI, avoid AI, or defend a particular workflow. It gives creators and audiences a way to discuss the work without turning the discussion into a binary or a judgment.
This site is the first public version of the idea. We are publishing the scale, the reasoning behind it, and the questions that remain open.