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Legal Notice

GPT-1 was introduced in June 2018, while the original public version of ChatGPT was launched on November 30, 2022. The EU Artificial Intelligence Act entered into force on August 1, 2024, with its provisions becoming applicable in stages. Its general application date was August 2, 2026. Under Article 111(4), providers of AI systems generating synthetic audio, image, video, or text content that were placed on the market before August 2, 2026, have until December 2, 2026, to comply with the marking and detection requirements of Article 50(2).

In Article 50(2) we read : "Providers of AI systems, including general-purpose AI systems, generating synthetic audio, image, video or text content, shall ensure that the outputs of the AI system are marked in a machine-readable format and detectable as artificially generated or manipulated. Providers shall ensure their technical solutions are effective, interoperable, robust and reliable as far as this is technically feasible, taking into account the specificities and limitations of various types of content, the costs of implementation and the generally acknowledged state of the art, as may be reflected in relevant technical standards. This obligation shall not apply to the extent the AI systems perform an assistive function for standard editing or do not substantially alter the input data provided by the deployer or the semantics thereof, or where authorised by law to detect, prevent, investigate or prosecute criminal offences."

The Act distinguishes obligations imposed on AI providers from those imposed on deployers, while recognizing the importance of human review, editorial control, and responsibility for published content.

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Artificial Intelligence is used in SOFIATOPIA as an instrument of inquiry, not as a substitute for philosophical judgment or authorship. LLMs process and reorganize information through material and computational architectures. Their linguistic fluency does not establish subjective awareness or a first-person outlook. 

Within this website, AI acts as an assistant. It searches the corpus, compares texts, reconstructs arguments, identifies inconsistencies, and generates provisional summaries or formulations. Its results remain fallible. AIs may omit distinctions, invent references, flatten arguments, or hallucinate.

Even with carefully engineered prompts, AI-generated text requires critical examination, factual verification, conceptual refinement, rewriting, and integration into the author's own line of reasoning. The final formulations remain subject to the author's judgment and editorial responsibility. The end result is always the author's. Since 2022, ChatGPT has been used, and more recently, Claude as well.

Specialized GPTs provide access to different parts of the SOFIATOPIA corpus :

PhiloBook Inquirer for Philosophy,
BodhiBook Inquirer for the Buddhadharma, and
Ma’at Inquirer for Ancient Egyptian Studies.

They should be used as guides into the books and webpages, never as replacements for them. Always verify quotations, references, and doctrinal claims against the original texts.

AI answers are proposals for examination, not final authority.

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How to Use These Tools Critically

AI can assist inquiry, but it does not replace reading, verification, or judgment.

Consult the sources

Use the answer as a guide into the relevant books and webpages. Important claims should be checked against the original text.

Verify quotations and references

AI may misquote, misattribute, or invent references. Always confirm quotations, page numbers, names, dates, and bibliographical details.

Distinguish source from synthesis

An answer may combine passages from the corpus with its own reconstruction. Ask which claims are directly supported by the texts and which are interpretative summaries.

Preserve conceptual distinctions

AI can flatten arguments or substitute familiar terminology for the author’s exact concepts. Pay attention to distinctions central to the work.

Treat every answer as provisional

AI output is a proposal for examination, correction, and further inquiry—not an authority and never the final word.

For questions concerning the Studies in Philosophy

For questions concerning the Studies in Buddhism

For questions concerning Studies in Ancient Egypt

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