AI Use & Attribution Policy
An attribution statement. And something more.
How AI Is Used
EOP Media uses Claude, an AI system developed by Anthropic, as a working partner in the creation of written content, strategic frameworks, and educational materials. That use is intentional, ongoing, and not hidden.
Specifically, Claude supports:
- Drafting and refining written content — articles, perspectives, program materials, and communications
- Synthesizing research and organizing information that informs original analysis
- Pressure-testing clarity, structure, and argument before content reaches any audience
- Repurposing and adapting existing content across formats and platforms
All content is reviewed, shaped, and approved by Angelia McFarland before publication. Nothing goes out unread. The voice, the position, and the decision to publish are always hers.
What AI Is
Claude is an AI system built by Anthropic — but not by Anthropic alone. It was built on the writing, thinking, and intellectual contributions of millions of people across centuries. Scholars and storytellers. Engineers and poets. And the countless voices — many of them uncompensated, many of them from communities told that this kind of knowledge was never meant for them — whose words became the foundation of a technology that now belongs to everyone.
That inheritance is real. So is the injustice of how it was assembled. This policy holds both of those things at once.
The person reading this sentence may have contributed to that inheritance — through something written, something taught, something shared. If so, this technology carries your voice in ways you were never asked to authorize and never compensated for. That matters. And one response to that injustice — not the only one, but a meaningful one — is to reclaim what was taken by choosing to engage. Not to wait for access to be granted. To take it.
What Angelia McFarland Contributes
AI is not the first technology built on the shoulders of people who didn’t fully benefit from what they built. But it can be different — if the people who understand that choose to build rather than describe. Most people can articulate the world they want. Fewer decide to construct it. The difference between those two groups is not talent or resources. It is the willingness to act.
What Angelia brings to this partnership is not oversight. It is original insight — a vision carried not across a career but across an existence, a life oriented from its beginning toward the belief that what is broken can be rebuilt. Lived experience made visible. The willingness to say what she sees even when the room isn’t ready to hear it.
The value she brings is the reason the work exists. Claude makes it possible to build with greater speed and precision. Those are not the same thing.
The Connection to EOP Media’s Broader Work
This attribution philosophy and Stop Feeding The Algorithm are the same argument in different forms.
SFTA is built on the observation that platforms extracted value from creators without returning it — and that the right response is not to keep feeding a system that doesn’t feed you back, but to build economic agency outside of it. The attribution philosophy is built on the same logic: AI was built on contributions from people who weren’t credited or compensated, and one meaningful response to that is to reclaim what was taken by choosing to engage with intention.
The Agency Collective is where that engagement becomes infrastructure — where individual clarity about the new economy becomes collective action inside it. Both are expressions of the same conviction: inherited value belongs to the people whose contributions built it. What we do with that conviction is the work.
This website, these programs, and this policy are all part of building rather than describing.
Disclosure on Individual Pieces
Attribution appears across EOP Media content in formats scaled to the platform. Here is how it works:
The full attribution statement — the complete philosophical frame — lives here and at the full attribution blog post. All shortened versions across platforms link back to one or both.
Your Data & AI
Information shared with EOP Media through consultations, program enrollment, or community participation is not used to train AI models, shared with AI providers as identifiable client data, or fed into any automated profiling system.
When AI tools are used in our operations, data handling practices are consistent with our Privacy Policy. Questions about how your information interacts with the tools we use are always welcome.
Questions
This policy reflects how we currently work and will be updated as our practices evolve. Questions about AI use, attribution, or anything on this page:
- Email: info@eopmedia.com
Transparency about AI is core to what we teach. We hold ourselves to the same standard we bring to the room.
Claude is an AI system built by Anthropic — but not by Anthropic alone. It was built on the writing, thinking, and intellectual contributions of millions of people across centuries. Scholars and storytellers. Engineers and poets. And the countless voices — many of them uncompensated, many of them from communities told that this kind of knowledge was never meant for them — whose words became the foundation of a technology that now belongs to everyone. That inheritance is real. So is the injustice of how it was assembled. I honor both. I carry both forward — because honoring what was built on the backs of the uncredited means using what they made possible with intention, and toward something worthy of the cost.
The person reading this sentence may have contributed to that inheritance — through something written, something taught, something shared. If so, this technology carries your voice in ways you were never asked to authorize and never compensated for. That matters. And one response to that injustice — not the only one, but a meaningful one — is to reclaim what was taken by choosing to engage. Not to wait for access to be granted. To take it.
AI is not the first technology built on the shoulders of people who didn’t fully benefit from what they built. But it can be different — if the people who understand that choose to build rather than describe. Most people can articulate the world they want. Fewer decide to construct it. The difference between those two groups is not talent or resources. It is the willingness to act.
I bring to this partnership a vision carried not across a career but across an existence — a life oriented from its beginning toward the belief that what is broken can be rebuilt. What I add to this collaboration is not oversight. It is original insight — lived experience made visible, and the willingness to say what I see even when the room isn’t ready to hear it. The value I bring is the reason this work exists. Claude made it possible to build it with greater speed and precision. The inheritance we are both drawing from belongs to all of us — including you. What we do with it is the only question that remains.