PRE-GEN

Pre-Generative Authorization Protocol

28 September 2026

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Before an AI system generates a real person, brand or work, it asks a registry. The registry answers, signs the answer, and anyone can check it later.

How it works

  1. 1
    Ask

    The AI service asks the registry before it generates.

  2. 2
    Answer

    The registry says yes, no or not yet — and signs it.

  3. 3
    Report

    After generating, the service reports what it made.

Four possible answers

Allow
A licence covers this use.
Not blocked
Personal use. Nothing forbids it, nothing is granted.
Review
The rights holder decides first.
Deny
Refused, with a reason.

Open to everyone

Anyone can run a registry or build it into an AI service, free, under Apache-2.0. It works only where AI services choose to ask, and a signed answer shows what the registry said — not that a use is lawful.