One of the core features of the McKinley Park News has been our canonical calendar of events for the neighborhood, in which we try to include every public-facing event and activity that we can.

The many great organizations that put on events for our neighborhood will promote them widely, including here in the McKinley Park News. However, unfortunately, we've recently been seeing obvious use of AI-generated posters some organizations are using to promote their events.

For many reasons, the McKinley Park News is 100 percent human and zero percent AI . We cannot enforce our standards of basic decency on others, of course, but we can make choices about what we publish, even when the content originates from otherwise well-meaning third parties.

We will not include or publish community event posters that appear to be produced by AI: the same layouts, illustration styles, ghoulish illustration, spacing and other tells of AI generation.

Although we may still list the event information from such sources in our calendars, we won't include the AI slop graphics. We encourage local groups to not use AI for this or other purposes, for it is a practice that harms our economy, environment and livelihoods.

Community groups using AI for this will accordingly get less interest in their event listings without a poster included here. We encourage groups to use and submit human-created media instead for full promotional advantage.

If we err in our exclusion, any community group is welcome to contact us directly with their human-created event graphics and media.