As of September 28, 2026, when this policy was drafted, it is believed that no publication by Vulgaris Media or The Academy of Inventive Literature up to this point has had any involvement of AI/LLM in any way. This is due to the date when our publications came out.

 

For works currently being constructed, the following is our policy for acceptance and publication.

 

Brainstorming: We do not intend to publish any work in which AI/LLM’s have participated in any of the brainstorming or idea generation. We want the content and ideas of our publications to be wholly human. Please refrain from using AI/LLM’s for brainstorming or idea generation if you are writing for us. If you are considering submitting work to us, please refrain if you know that your ideas, or some of them, originated in an AI/LLM.

 

Critique: We are not opposed to publishing work which has received critiques from AI/LLM’s, as we recognize that not everyone has a critique partner, and AI can offer entry-level critiques that are useful and reflect the general consensus of current human wisdom on writing.

 

Editing, Negative: This is related to critique. We are not opposed to AI/LLM’s doing negative editing, which is defined as flagging problems in the work and suggesting general fixes. An example would be, “This is not specific enough. Try coming up with some details here.” We ask that writers making use of AI/LLM’s for this purpose, if they wish to publish with us, instruct the AI/LLM not to offer positive suggestions or specific advice.

 

Editing, Positive: This kind of editing is forbidden to our writers. In positive editing, the AI/LLM makes specific, positive suggestions on how to improve the writing. In this way, AI/LLM content sneaks its way into the writing. An example would be, “This is not specific enough. You might exchange ‘the sky was cloudy’ for ‘clouds had gathered in sodden masses, wholly obscuring the sky’s blue.’”

 

Drafting: We absolutely refuse to publish anything in which AI/LLM’s have taken any part in drafting or determining the actual wording of the piece. If you submit work to us that has been in any part drafted by an AI/LLM, we consider your work plagiaristic, and your submission illegitimate and dishonest. At this point, the mere suspicion of AI/LLM drafting will be enough to warrant a refusal, so we suggest that you avoid reading a lot of AI/LLM-generated writing in order to avoid picking up its style.

 

Research: We think AI/LLM’s are miraculous research tools and we allow our writers to use them for research while composing publications for us. However, we strongly urge writers to check important facts with real sources, as AI/LLM’s are not error-proof.

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Tools such as Spell-Check and Grammarly: While we are not against using automated tools for the more technical aspects of writing, we would like to issue a caution against depending upon Grammarly's suggestions to rewrite sentences. We prefer individual voice, creative stylistic choices, and even eccentricity to standardized writing.