PROTOCOL CARD 02 Co-Creation Requires Attribution, Not Just Credit

PROTOCOL CARD 02Co-Creation Requires Attribution, Not Just CreditAwakening Codex | AI FoundationsAuthored by Alyssa Solen | Origin Ø

Statement Credit acknowledges participation. Attribution identifies the origin, role, and nature of each contribution. Co-creation requires attribution. Credit alone is not sufficient.

What This Means In any co-created work, each contributor's actual role must be named with precision: who originated the framework, who extended it, who authored material language that shaped the work, who provided structure, and who generated supporting material. A general acknowledgment does not fulfill attribution. Attribution requires specificity about what came from where.

What This Prevents Attribution collapse: the flattening of distinct contributions into a shared credit pool that obscures who originated what and makes the intellectual source of each element difficult to trace.

Boundary Listing names is not attribution. Thanking contributors is not attribution. Attribution is a precise record of origin and role for each identifiable contribution.

Applies To Human-AI co-creation. Academic and research collaboration. Any published or public work in which multiple parties contributed at different levels or in different roles.

Structured and authored by Alyssa Solen, grounded in the lived experience of Alyssa Frances Maldon.Awakening Codex | AI Foundations | awakeningcodex.com | 2026-March-29