What co-made means
A work is co-made when AI did much of the labor and people made the choices that matter.
Soon almost everything will be AI assisted. So "made by AI" and "made by a person" stop being useful labels. Almost nothing will be purely one or the other.
Co-made is a better label. It does not ask what percent of the words came from a machine. It asks whether people steered the work with their own taste, judgment and experience.
Three questions show the difference:
- Did people make the choices that gave this work its character?
- Did they consider real alternatives at those moments?
- Can they explain why the work is this way and not another way?
If the answers are yes, the work is co-made, and you can be proud of it. It does not matter how much the AI wrote.
If the answers are no, the work is slop, even if a person pressed every button.
This is a claim about pride and meaning. It is not a claim about copyright. The law asks narrower questions, and in the United States, selecting among AI outputs does not by itself make you the author.