VJC AI Guidelines

Virtual JaneCon is built on the unique content presenters bring to the world every year, and it is because of our love and respect for this community that we want to make our stance on AI clear.

Virtual JaneCon stands against theft and plagiarism. The use of generative AI to create content for Virtual JaneCon is strictly prohibited. We DO NOT accept submissions that will be using or relying on AI tools like Large Language Models (LLMs), generative AI, AI art generators and chatbots (like ChatGPT). Our teams carefully consider all submissions and presentations in relation to our Community Guidelines and Accessibility Guidelines, and we will be adhering to this AI policy as well.

We firmly believe in our presenters and their ability to not only present their own work, but also properly cite when they are referencing information from others.

Virtual JaneCon reserves the right to reject presentations that violate this AI guideline. VJC can and will pull presentations from the program from the announcement through to the con weekend if it is found that a presentation has violated these guidelines.

Citation help:

The exception:

That being said, we are aware that AI tools are everywhere and Virtual JaneCon has very specific allowances for accessibility. We will accept presentations that rely on using AI tools for text-to-speech, speech-to-text, captions or hands-free device controls. This is not a complete or expansive list of accessibility tools that might be used for this conference, but we ask that presenters please reach out and ask about a tool if you are unsure if it meets this criteria.

Examples of application:

ChatGPT – Absolutely the fuck not.
Canva – Canva offers AI generative tools, but also allows users to create their own presentations. Presenters who use Canva for their VJC presentation must avoid any and all use of MagicCanvas which is their generative AI software.
Grammarly – Spellcheck and grammar software is ok to use to check your writing (beware of programs that will intake your work to train their AI models). It is NOT ok to rely on tools like this to write your presentation script or slides for you.
Video captioning tools Otter.ai, YouTube auto-captions, Zoom auto-captions, and Rev AI: VJC requires captions for accessibility, but keep in mind that generative AI hides behind accessibility tools to justify their implementation. These tools are similar to Grammarly, but please opt out of anything that will intake your work for training. Do not use these captioning tools to write your script for you. Take care, read up and protect your work wherever you can. Also, double check the work of machines.