A register of people who make their own work
Made by a human and we watched.
Every person here met one of us, Tihomir or Chris on a live call or recorded session and made their work in front of us. We hashed the finished file and signed a note saying what we saw. You can check that yourself, without trusting this website or asking either of us.
Every entry signed with one key
434F 64B7 9E9A 22F0 087E 2FFE AD37 9A30 2A05 EC52
- Witnessed live or recorded
- Hashed
- Signed
- Never for sale
- Revoked in public
Why it is called Aletheia
Aletheia is a Greek word for truth, but not truth as in "correct". It means un-concealment — a thing that has stopped being hidden. Not covered up.
That is the whole promise, and the whole limit. We cannot prove a human made something. Nobody can. What we can do is not hide anything: who watched, what we saw, when, which file is signed with a key whose fingerprint is at the top of every page.
The badge is not a certificate of quality, originality, or worth. It is one named person saying I was there, in a form that cannot be quietly edited later.
Aletheia is two people for now. Every live session has one of us in it, and every certificate says which. Here is why each of us does this, in our own words.
Tihomir
Started Aletheia · witness
Why I do this
I started Aletheia to stand with the people who make things, and to build something I hope outlives me. Art has always taken many forms. The form it takes now, on the internet, is the one most easily taken from the hands that made it, so it is the one most in need of looking after.
I mean to spend my life on this, one witnessed piece at a time. I don't know what the future holds. But whatever it brings, someone will have been watching, and will have written down what they saw.
— Tihomir
Chris Joubert
Witness
Why I do this
I want to stop AI from feeding off creators' work.
Creators should get the benefit of their own labour. A piece of work represents hours, often days, built on years of practice. When AI copies it, the person who made it sees none of the benefit. I don't think that's fair.
Human work carries something a machine can't replicate. It deserves to be kept and protected, not cheapened by imitations. That's why I do this: to give creators a way to show the work is theirs.
— Chris Joubert
Three pieces of evidence
A witness
A live call, screen shared and working files open. One of us watched the work being made, asked questions about it, and wrote down what we saw, with our name on it.
A hash
The SHA-256 fingerprint of the finished file. Change one byte and the fingerprint changes completely. You can compute it yourself offline within seconds.
A signature
The statement is plain text that is signed with one key. It cannot be edited, forged, or backdated without breaking the signature, including by us.
The full promise is in the pledge. The exact process is in how it works. What we have withdrawn is in the withdrawn list, signed even when empty.
Five seats that are filled one at a time
There is no application form. The first five are personal invitations, because the only thing that makes this worth anything is that one of us actually sat with each person. That does not scale, and for now it is not supposed to.
If you make things and you are tired of being asked “is this AI?”, write to us: aletheiahominis@proton.me. Verification is free and always will be.
Site notes
Kept by hand, newest first. Nothing here changes quietly.
- The signing key was regenerated. The first key's secret half was lost in a machine reinstall and had never signed a published certificate, so nothing issued was affected. New key: ed25519, fingerprint ending 2A05 EC52, created 15 Oct 2026, expires 14 Oct 2029. The public key and the fingerprint on every page were updated to match.
- Aletheia is two people now. Chris Joubert joins as a witness. The site changed from I to we, and the two of us say why, in our own words, above. The pledge was revised to name us both; the first version stays online. The signing key is unchanged and stays with Tihomir.
- The withdrawn list has a page of its own now, readable even while it is empty. The signed file stays the one that counts.
- A new mark: a person, arms up, checked by hand. The site took its colours from it, learned to read in the dark, and grew a copy button next to the key. The badge that verified people embed is unchanged.
- Renamed to Aletheia, and rebuilt the site to look like the program that signs the certificates. The key's fingerprint now sits at the top of every page.
- The signing key exists: Aletheia, ed25519, fingerprint ending 4F05 01CE. Certificates are real from here on — every one checkable against the published key.
- Chose the badge: a fingerprint inside a hexagon. The oldest human signature there is.
- Site goes up. Badge designed, pledge written, process documented. Now: finding the first five people.