First Tabletop Game Certified with Anti-AI Human Intelligence®
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NINJA BORG RPG Creators Walton Wood and Rugose Kohn Use Patent-Pending Tools to Register Themselves and Their Game as “Human”
Portland, Oregon — Human Intelligence® today welcomed the first tabletop creators to verify both themselves and certify their work with patent-pending human authentication tools.
Walton Wood and Rugose Kohn (Hammer & Hatchet, The Bogfolk) created NINJA BORG, a spinoff of the MÖRK BORG roleplaying game system, to let players live out their version of violent and campy ninja films of the ‘80s and ‘90s.
Both Wood and Kohn are now verified as Human Creators and NINJA BORG is certified as Human Intelligence. Human Intelligence tools can protect human creators at the personal, published work, and organizational level.
The Humanright™ mark on their Bluesky profiles and work certification on the NINJA BORG website are a new way to safeguard IP and create trust with audiences for whom “human-made” is the main reason to buy, engage, promote, or partner.
“As a visual artist, the advance of generative AI and its theft with no consent or agency on the part of artists is extremely troubling,” said Kohn. “I am already exploited and under-compensated for my effort, and the exploitation is accelerating exponentially with generative AI. Getting verified is a way to take a stand against this.”
“Making something as stupid as NINJA BORG requires dogged human effort; GenAI could never hope to attempt it,” added Wood. “Our friends in the RPG community know this. But what about players who don’t want AI-generated games and don’t know us? That’s part of what the H mark is for. Ninjas have pretty sweet moves. Defending themselves against lame synthetic pirates is one of them.”
Human Intelligence® authentication is currently offered on a pay-what-you-can basis for the early cohort of tabletop creators to proclaim their human-made ethos, protect their work, and build the trust layer between genuine human creatives and their audiences.
Find out more about registering here, or contact Nate Warren with questions.
ABOVE: Work-level certification appears on the NINJA BORG site along with publisher info.
BELOW: The Humanright mark as it appears on the Bluesky profile images of NINJA BORG creators Rugose Kohn and Walton Wood.
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Human Intelligence® provides creatives of all disciplines a set of patent-pending authentication tools designed to prove human origin, protect human work, and create marketplace trust and preference. Human Intelligence is a contributing member of the Coalition for Content Provenance & Authenticity (C2PA), the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI), and the Copyright Alliance.