User rights
What Rights Should Generative-AI Users Have?
A practical user-rights framework begins with privacy, transparency, appeal, creative agency and meaningful control over personal data.
At minimum, users should understand how their data is handled, receive an explanation when systems restrict them, appeal consequential errors, preserve records of their creative contribution and control whether private work becomes public.
Privacy and control
Users should be able to see what a service stores about them, choose whether their work is used for training and delete prompts and outputs without navigating an obstacle course.
Sensitive creative exploration should not quietly become a permanent behavioral profile.
Explanation and appeal
Automated moderation makes mistakes. When a generation is blocked or an account is restricted, the provider should identify the relevant rule and offer a meaningful route to review.
An appeal process is especially important when classifiers infer intent, age, identity or risk from ambiguous material.
Creative agency and authorship
AI can function as an instrument within a human-led process. Providers should preserve exportable records—prompts, iterations, edits and timestamps—that help people document their contribution.
Provenance should describe how a work was made, not automatically demote the human who directed it.