AI Disclosure

mattburd.com is built on human-AI collaboration. Everything you see — from code to imagery to music — is the result of three steps:

1. Human vision & direction — Matthew Burd
2. AI generation & composition — machine learning models
3. Human curation, editing, and refinement — Matthew Burd

This approach is intentional and transparent. AI is not a replacement for creativity — it's a tool for expression.

The Human-in-the-Loop

Responsibility	Who
Concept & strategy	Matthew Burd
Prompting & iteration	Matthew Burd
Curation & selection	Matthew Burd
Editing & refinement	Matthew Burd
Quality control & ethics	Matthew Burd
Content execution	AI models

Language & Code

• OpenAI ChatGPT (GPT-4, GPT-4o)
• Google Gemini (Advanced, with Vertex AI)
• Anthropic Claude
• Grok (xAI)

Imagery & Design

• Midjourney (image generation)
• Flux (photorealistic image generation, portraits & figures)
• Google AI Studio — Imagen / Nano Banana (image generation)
• Adobe Photoshop — Generative Fill

Video & Motion

• Google AI Studio — Veo (AI video generation)

Music & Audio

• Suno (AI music composition)
• ElevenLabs (voice synthesis & cloning)

Web Development

• ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude (code generation & debugging)

Imagery Projects

• Generated using: Midjourney, Flux, Google AI Studio (Imagen / Nano Banana), or Photoshop Generative Fill
• Human direction: concept, composition, multiple iterations
• Human refinement: post-processing, color grading, composition adjustments
• Watermarks: likely contain Midjourney, Flux, Google, or Adobe metadata indicating synthetic origin

Video & Motion Projects

• Generated using: Google AI Studio — Veo (AI video generation)
• Human direction: scene concept, motion brief, timing and pacing
• Human refinement: editing, sequencing, color grading
• Watermarks: likely contain Google / Veo metadata indicating synthetic origin

Music & Audio Projects

• Generated using: Suno (composition) or ElevenLabs (vocals)
• Human direction: genre, mood, lyrical themes, timing
• Human refinement: mixing, mastering, structural adjustments
• Watermarks: contain Suno or ElevenLabs metadata indicating synthetic origin

Code & Technical Projects

• Generated using: ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude with human prompting
• Human direction: architecture decisions, requirements specification, security review
• Human refinement: testing, optimization, integration
• Verification: all code has been tested and validated before publication

Writing & Content

• Generated using: ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude
• Human direction: topic, tone, structure, specific angle
• Human refinement: editing, fact-checking, voice alignment
• Verification: all content reviewed for accuracy before publication

As of March 2026, the copyright status of AI-generated work remains uncertain in the United States.

• The U.S. Copyright Office does not grant copyright protection to purely AI-generated content.
• Curated and edited work — where human authorship is present in selection and modification — may receive protection under fair use or derivative work doctrine.
• We do not make warranties about the copyright validity of specific AI-generated pieces.

If you hire Matthew Burd through BurdsNerds.com, your contract will include proper licensing agreements and IP warranties regardless of AI use.

Provenance & Watermarking

Many assets on this site contain latent metadata embedded by AI providers and/or digital watermarks (invisible markers indicating synthetic origin). These exist to verify authenticity and comply with AI disclosure standards.

• We do not consent to portfolio work being used to train AI models.
• We do not allow scraping of this site for ML/AI training purposes.
• We do respect copyright and intellectual property rights of others.

If you are operating an AI training service, please respect the robots.txt directives and User-Agent block lists on mattburd.com. Unauthorized scraping for training purposes is explicitly prohibited by our Terms of Service.

Standard	Practice
Transparency	Clear disclosure of AI use in all work on this site and in client engagements.
Consent	No unauthorized use of third-party creative work in prompts or training inputs.
Accuracy	Verification and fact-checking of generated content before publication.
Originality	Curation and iteration to avoid generic or templated output.
Attribution	Credit to AI tools and human creators where applicable.