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Logoi distinguishes three kinds of authorship: mechanical extracts from upstream corpora, human-authored scholarly work by Cody Peterson, and AI-assisted prose by Sebastian-on-Logoi. Every page carries a badge naming which kind of content it is. This page documents the policy, the per-surface matrix, and the copyright posture.

By Cody Peterson · Updated 2026-05-09

Route Family: Docs
Robots Policy: Public route
Sitemap Inclusion: included
Source Gate: Landing honesty gate
Receipt Pointer: none
Closed Claim: Documentation only

The three kinds of authorship

Every Logoi page falls into one of three authorship categories. The badge at the top of each page names which one. The matrix below maps Logoi's surfaces to their authorship class.

Mechanical extract Audited primary corpus (passage pages, lemma pages, lexicon entries)

Direct ingest of public-domain or compatibly-licensed editions (LSJ, BDB, Vulgate, OSHB, Lewis & Short, DIORISIS, Perseus). Each passage carries a `source_file_sha256` and an audit chain visible at the receipt URL. No AI, no paraphrasing, no editorial reshaping at this layer.

Mechanical extract Morphology + lemma analyses

Drawn from upstream morphology providers (TreeTagger via DIORISIS; PROIEL Treebank). Provenance tagged per row.

Mechanical extract Etymology entries

Drawn from PD etymology corpora (Wiktionary, Beekes pointers, Chantraine pointers). Citation-only for paywalled authorities (LSJ noting Beekes; never reprinting Beekes).

Human Methodology, citation policy, source data model, this page

Authored by Cody Peterson. Edited by Cody Peterson. The architecture decisions, scholarly framing, and policy posture are human work.

Human Acknowledgments

Hand-curated upstream credits.

AI-assisted Meta descriptions (per-page SEO summaries)

Sebastian-on-Logoi drafts the meta description for each page; Cody reviews + accepts before deploy. Per MC-SEO-CTR-LOOP. Visible only to search engines; not part of the page body.

AI-assisted Journey prose (Soul Word Journey, future cross-language journeys)

Sebastian-on-Logoi composes the connective prose between corpus passages; the corpus passages themselves remain mechanical extracts. Sebastian's prose paraphrases + cites; never reprints. Cody reviews each journey before publication.

AI-assisted Semantic AI surface (when MC-AI-ENDPOINT ships)

Sebastian-on-Logoi answers user questions by paraphrasing across Layer A primary corpus + Layer B open lexica + Layer C citation pointers + Layer D scholarly references. Every response carries source citations. Per D-MC-035 four-layer architecture.

Sebastian-on-Logoi — what it is, what it is not

"Sebastian-on-Logoi" is the configured AI persona that drafts AI-assisted prose for Logoi. The four facts below answer the load-bearing questions a scholar or auditor would ask.

What is Sebastian-on-Logoi?

A configured retrieval-augmented assistant. Anthropic's Claude (model family) under the hood; trained on no Logoi-private data; constrained to cite Logoi's audited corpus + a curated set of scholarly sources (Layer D per D-MC-035).

What is Sebastian's training corpus?

Anthropic's Claude is the base model. Logoi adds a retrieval layer (RAG) with explicit source provenance per response. Sebastian does not have memorized text from copyrighted lexica (TLG, Loeb, BDAG, OED, etc.); those remain citation-only.

What are Sebastian's limits?

Sebastian paraphrases; it does not reprint copyrighted material. Sebastian cites every source. Sebastian declines to answer questions outside the scholarly register. Sebastian flags uncertainty rather than guessing.

Citation discipline

Per D-MC-035 Layer D contract: every Sebastian output carries a citation list spanning the Layer A passages, Layer B lexicon entries, Layer C pointers, and Layer D references that grounded the answer. The user can audit the response by following the citations.

Copyright posture

Three copyright positions, one per authorship category. The US Copyright Office's 2023 guidance on AI-generated content is the framing used here.

Mechanical extracts

Public domain or upstream-licensed (CC BY, CC BY-SA, etc.). Logoi's display does not change the upstream copyright. Attribution per source MANIFEST.

Human-authored prose (this page, methodology, etc.)

AI-assisted prose (meta descriptions, journey prose, semantic AI responses)

Per US Copyright Office 2023 guidance: human-curated/edited AI output is © Cody Peterson under the editorial-input doctrine. Purely-AI-generated text without human curation is public-domain in the US. Logoi's AI-assisted prose is human-curated by default; treat as © Cody Peterson unless otherwise noted.

How to read the per-page badges

Each Logoi page renders one of three badges near the top:

Green dot · Mechanical extract from <source> — corpus pages (passages, lemmas, lexicon entries). Direct ingest of upstream data. No editorial layer, no paraphrasing.
Blue dot · By Cody Peterson — human-authored scholarly work. Methodology, citation policy, source data model, this disclosure page itself.
Amber dot · AI-assisted prose by Sebastian-on-Logoi — AI-drafted prose curated by Cody. Journey prose, meta descriptions, future semantic AI responses.

Click any badge to return here. The badge always names the authorship class plus (where relevant) the upstream source.