AI colophon

MishMash studies creative uses of AI — and uses AI, openly, in making this website. This page declares how, so that readers and partners never have to guess whether AI was involved.

Where AI contributes

Content. AI assistance is used for drafting and adapting texts, including the reading-level variants on adaptive pages and entries in the glossary. Editors review and revise before anything is published.
Code and automation. Much of the site’s tooling — the sync scripts that pull data from NVA, ORCID, and Wikipedia, the theme switcher, the adaptive-content machinery, quality checks — is developed with AI assistance, visible in the repository’s commit history through Co-Authored-By trailers.
Translation. Machine translation is used between English and Norwegian, and is marked as such on the pages concerned.
Artwork. The bubble variation below is redrawn every night by a small script: a deterministic sketch seeded by the date and the day’s site activity (each small bubble is an upcoming event). It is generative in the algorithmic sense — no AI model is involved.

Today's generated variation of the MishMash bubble emblem

Today's bubbles — generated nightly from site activity

Our commitments

Humans are responsible. AI output is generally reviewed before it goes live. The exception is the nightly builds, retrieving new data from NVA and ORCID. In any case, errors are ours, not the machine’s.
Nothing is hidden. AI involvement is declared here, marked on translated pages, and traceable in the open commit history.
It is an experiment. Building our own communication channel with AI-based assistance is part of MishMash’s research practice. It is a way to create, explore, and reflect on the tools we study. What we learn feeds back into the centre’s research and teaching.

The latest changes

Every change to this site is logged in the open. Here are the 5 most recent, with a note on how each was made. So far 1013 changes have been made. AI assistance — from a variety of tools and agents — has been part of the work since the very first one; 251 of the changes also carry an explicit AI-assistance marker, but early changes were not systematically marked, so that number is a lower bound.

11 July 2026 updating seed project made by hand
11 July 2026 AI as Environment: update summary for mobility funding reallocation to 2026 Venice Biennale made with AI assistance
11 July 2026 Update directory and results from NVA. automatic update
10 July 2026 Ingerine Dahl: add ORCID made with AI assistance
10 July 2026 Add hero image to the Samkopf Ultima event made with AI assistance

All changes, back to the very first, are in the open change log on GitHub.

More about the thinking behind the site: the web philosophy in the project wiki and the centre’s communication strategy. Questions or concerns: contact@mishmash.no.