PRODUCTION OF CONTENT
The ‘world of education’ has changed in recent years to bombard the marketing and acceptance of curriculum and blog posts which were/are being put together by technological programs (i.e. from information that machines gather and spit out) instead of by a living person assembling the sentences and lesson material, crafting it as a teacher should do.
When information is produced as a result of robots and computer programming instead of humans, this is known as “generative AI”. The programmed robots get “trained” – they grab and reorganize data from various places and then aim to summarize it. This process is done, often quickly and without any person first thinking through the specific information, organizing the thoughts and expressing it themselves (e.g. in art, in writing, in speaking, etc.).
There is a difference between using computer-assisted tools such as searching online for something, using a spell checker, or an eraser digitally on a graphic, in comparison to, spitting out entire lesson plans devoid of a real person actually designing the lesson itself. (The first is simply using a computer as a tool, even an automated tool to do part of a task, yet still under the control and mind of a person paying attention.)
In our opinion, “generative AI” used in education (sometimes known as “AI-generated work” for “content-creation”) is not just a ‘fast-food’ solution to feed curious minds or check off the “boxes”, not as nutritious as carefully thought-out lessons. A bigger concern is moral: that it is too-often a type of deception (e.g. to appear to be trustworthy and coming from the one place, when in reality, its’ source(s) are from elsewhere and not credited) and/or that it is a form of theft of information/works (e.g. when the material gathered was done so without permission of the owner).
We want our audience to know that the books (including e-books), blog posts, and printables on our website are works which have been produced by a real person (or people). In other words, to the very best of our ability, the content on our website and resources we publish and promote, has always been human generated. (See our “No AI” statement here.)
Copyright, by definition, protects products of human creativity. (Source document link)
To view our EULA statement (which accompanies the copyright of our downloadable, printable e-books and other printables for sale in our shop), please go to this page here.
COPYRIGHTS AND CREDITS
We acknowledge with gratefulness, the contribution given by other people in this website design!
- The catalogue/listing descriptions (words) are sometimes written by our suppliers and are under copyright from them or others. While we, Peppermint Stick Learning Company Inc., have permission to use these descriptions in our business relationship with these suppliers, you may not use these same descriptions (unless you have also obtained direct permission from them). Sometimes we write our own catalogue descriptions in which case, Rob or Joy Delmore are the writers of those descriptions. If you need to know further about whether or not a description can be used for an idea of yours, please contact us.
- The photos used on this website are either taken by Rob or Joy Delmore or family or friends of ours – they are all used with permission OR are from stock photo websites from which we have obtained permission to use individual graphics for our specific purposes. (For the stock photos and a few fonts, they are standard license photos from iStock.com and Creative Market. We also used a free styled-stock image from SC Stockshop.)
- The photos used to describe our product items may have been taken by us or our suppliers and are used with permission.
- The graphics used for products and events for which we are affiliates, are the sole property of the organizations and businesses for which they are being displayed.
- The logos from businesses for which we are affiliates, as well as the logo from any other business, are the sole property of the organization or business for which they are being displayed. These logos remain the property of their respective owners and are used on our website with their permission.
- The highly-detailed miniature paintings or highly-detailed pen and ink drawings on this website were drawn/painted by Joy’s cousin, David (D.W.) Emke, and used with his kind permission. These drawings remain under copyright and may not be used for other purposes without permission. He has directed Joy and Rob how his artwork in our business may be used and we intend to uphold his requests to the best of our abilities. If you wish to contact him directly about other artwork, you are welcome to do so through us since he is retired and does not have his own website. He also painted or drew for a number of our book covers.
This page was updated September 20, 2024.
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