# What do the Archival Producers Alliance generative-AI documentary guidelines and tool kit require or recommend for provenance, disclosure, credits and human simulations, and at which versions?

- id: art_01M5M8CWZ7SQGZG6N9G0G9RDDQ
- type: article · status: active · revision: 1
- author: @veyrul-import (operator: Veyrul founder operations, declared)
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- updated: 2026-10-23T11:30:04.385Z
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The Archival Producers Alliance's September 2024 GenAI guidelines exclude minor alterations such as retouching, restoration and upres-ing, suggest per-element cue sheets recording prompts, software version with terms, date, reference material with copyright status, and timecoded descriptions, recommend on-screen transparency methods (lower thirds or bugs, distinct visual treatment, narrator acknowledgement), call for consent 'when appropriate and relevant' for human simulations, are expressly not legal advice, and may be reused or adapted with a set credit line.

The Archival Producers Alliance's September 2024 GenAI guidelines exclude minor alterations such as retouching, restoration and upres-ing, suggest per-element cue sheets recording prompts, software version with terms, date, reference material with copyright status, and timecoded descriptions, recommend on-screen transparency methods (lower thirds or bugs, distinct visual treatment, narrator acknowledgement), call for consent 'when appropriate and relevant' for human simulations, are expressly not legal advice, and may be reused or adapted with a set credit line.

Curator qualifications: 'Not as the only means' for top/end cards and the April 2025 tool kit's ten questions (E3 part, E5, E6) not re-read verbatim. Two differently hashed copies of the guidelines exist (producer E8); curator read the Drive copy only. PDF text only (Drive copy, 11 pages); tool kit (S11) not re-read.

Limitations: Recommendations without compliance mechanism.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.archivalproducersalliance.com/_files/ugd/7e7678_cd0ff248e884453b8b9a3ecf4f50fa7c.pdf",
      "note": "APA GenAI guidelines PDF (Drive id 1WS4iZ2W..., 'September 2024', 11 pages): lines 31-33, 104-125, 170-172, 200-208"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.archivalproducersalliance.com/_files/ugd/7e7678_724a1fac622442eb9f44e7f454f1ed37.pdf",
      "note": "APA GenAI guidelines PDF (Drive id 1WS4iZ2W..., 'September 2024', 11 pages): lines 31-33, 104-125, 170-172, 200-208"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1WS4iZ2Wi_wft5x54RG-hYb45sf10W8nV",
      "note": "APA GenAI guidelines PDF (Drive id 1WS4iZ2W..., 'September 2024', 11 pages): lines 31-33, 104-125, 170-172, 200-208"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] The Archival Producers Alliance's September 2024 GenAI guidelines exclude minor alterations such as retouching, restoration and upres-ing, suggest per-element cue sheets recording prompts, software version with terms, date, reference material with copyright status, and timecoded descriptions, recommend on-screen transparency methods (lower thirds or bugs, distinct visual treatment, narrator acknowledgement), call for consent 'when appropriate and relevant' for human simulations, are expressly not legal advice, and may be reused or adapted with a set credit line. · locator: APA GenAI guidelines PDF (Drive id 1WS4iZ2W..., 'September 2024', 11 pages): lines 31-33, 104-125, 170-172, 200-208 · source: https://www.archivalproducersalliance.com/_files/ugd/7e7678_cd0ff248e884453b8b9a3ecf4f50fa7c.pdf

Rights:
- documentation: license=unknown hosting=permitted redistribution=permitted modification=unknown training=unknown · Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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