Purpose
The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS) is committed to preserving and presenting historical materials accurately, transparently, and responsibly. This policy explains how artificial intelligence and related digital tools may be used in preparing material for the MOLLUS website.
Historical Content Is Not AI-Generated
MOLLUS does not use artificial intelligence to invent, fabricate, or generate historical photographs, documents, quotations, biographies, military records, genealogical information, or other historical evidence presented as authentic source material.
Text presented as historical fact is based on identifiable historical records, published sources, archival materials, photographs, manuscripts, or other research sources. AI-generated historical facts, fictional quotations, fabricated documents, or synthetic representations of historical persons are not presented as genuine historical material.
Use of AI-Assisted Image Tools
Some historical images displayed on the MOLLUS website may have been processed using artificial-intelligence-assisted or other digital image-restoration tools. Such tools may be used for purposes including:
These processes are intended to improve the presentation and readability of an existing historical image, not to create new historical evidence.
Preservation of Historical Meaning
When AI-assisted restoration or enhancement tools are used, reasonable efforts are made to preserve the original informational content of the source.
Such tools should not be used to intentionally add persons, objects, insignia, text, signatures, dates, scenery, architectural details, or other historically significant content that is not present in the source image.
Where restoration requires interpretation because portions of an image are missing, illegible, or damaged, the resulting image should not be represented as an unaltered photographic or documentary original.
Text Within Historical Images
Because AI-based image tools can sometimes incorrectly reproduce printed or handwritten text, names, dates, page numbers, captions, or other details, restored images are reviewed against the available source whenever practicable.
Where exact textual accuracy is important, conventional image-editing methods may be used instead of generative tools so that the historical text remains faithful to the original.
No Synthetic Historical Photographs
MOLLUS does not represent fully AI-generated or synthetically reconstructed images as authentic historical photographs.
If a computer-generated illustration, reconstruction, or interpretive visualization is ever used for educational purposes, it should be clearly identified as an illustration or reconstruction and should not be presented in a manner that could reasonably be mistaken for an original historical image.
AI-Assisted Research and Editing
Artificial intelligence tools may be used as research or editorial aids, including for locating potential sources or research leads; organizing information; transcribing difficult material; improving grammar, spelling, formatting, or readability; comparing records; preparing preliminary summaries; and assisting with website production.
AI output is not treated as an authoritative historical source. Material intended to make factual historical claims should be checked against appropriate documentary or published sources before publication.
Citations and Sources
Whenever practicable, MOLLUS identifies the original source of historical documents, photographs, quotations, and factual information. The use of an AI-assisted restoration or editing tool does not replace or alter the citation of the underlying historical source.
The historical source—not the software used to clean, straighten, enhance, or format its image—is the evidentiary authority.
Transparency
MOLLUS recognizes a distinction between AI-assisted processing and AI-generated content.
Some images on this website may have been digitally restored, enhanced, straightened, cleaned, or otherwise processed using AI-assisted tools. Such processing is used to improve the presentation of authentic historical source material. MOLLUS does not use AI to generate historical photographs, documents, quotations, or factual content and present them as authentic originals.
Corrections
If digital processing introduces an error or materially alters historical information, MOLLUS will make reasonable efforts to correct the affected material when the error is identified.
Policy Principle
The governing principle of MOLLUS’s use of artificial intelligence is simple: technology may assist in preserving, restoring, researching, and presenting history, but it must not be used to manufacture history.
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