An LLM that respects intellectual property and ideas.
sovsrc.llm is a specification for a large language model that uses source material with permission, gives credit to the people who made it, and pays creators for agreed use. The project is at specification stage. No application, trained model, or payment system exists.
Permission first. Credit each time. Payment by agreement.
The first planned product is a research assistant that answers from an approved set of documents. The specification puts the permission checks and the payment decisions outside the model.
- A creator gives permission Each work has a record of the allowed purpose, recipients, territory, and duration.
- The system checks the record The check is made before a work is used, and again before an answer goes out.
- The use is recorded The credit receipt and the usage record are saved before the answer goes out. Agreed rewards are calculated from them.
- The answer shows its sources Each answer comes with the evidence that supports it.
What the project recognizes
The specification calls its framework Super Intellectual Property (SIP). It recognizes more than formal rights, through evidence and agreements. It is a proposed framework. It does not claim that a new legal right exists.
- IP and source works Reviewed rights, scoped licenses, and evidence of use.
- Ideas and research Concrete proposals, records of adoption, and agreed rewards.
- Contributions Code, improvements, prompts, workflows, curation, and evaluation.
- Influences Documented acknowledgments and lineage. Credit only, unless payment is expressly agreed.
- Combined work Upstream obligations stay in place. New contributions are recorded separately.
Ownership, permission, credit, governance, and payment are five separate records.
A similarity score cannot establish ownership, permission, or payment eligibility.
The proposed rewards pool, drawn to scale
The draft puts 20% of eligible collected revenue into a creator rewards pool. Eligible revenue is revenue after refunds, chargebacks, sales taxes, and payment fees. Three tracks divide the pool.
- 20%Creator rewards poolThe proposed share for creators.
- 80%The rest of eligible revenueOutside the pool.
- 60%Training and licensed corpusApproved, deduplicated training exposure and quality weights that are set in advance.
- 20%Prompt and workflow reuseVerified paid executions of accepted versions.
- 20%Ideas, contributions, and influencesAgreed adoption points with reviewed evidence. An influence share needs an explicit agreement.
These are proposed contract terms, not legal royalty rates. Credit alone does not create a payout. The planned pilot labels each payout as simulated.
What the specification commits to
- Permission before use
- Each asset has a record of the allowed purpose, recipients, territory, and duration.
- Honest attribution
- A verified quotation, a retrieved source, and an estimated influence are different things. The record says which one applies.
- Voluntary syndicates
- Creators can join a group that administers their work under an accepted charter. Membership does not transfer ownership.
- Private conversations
- Conversations are private by default. Shared training needs separate consent.
- Reproducible payments
- The system keeps the event history, calculates exact amounts, and does not settle the same event twice.
- Review and appeal
- Creators can dispute ownership, missing credit, and payments. They can revoke permission.
What exists today
The repository holds draft documents and no software. The license is a custom draft for legal review. It is not an OSI-approved license.
- Project and implementation specification The SIP framework, requirements, data records, APIs, milestones, and acceptance tests.
- Solution architecture Stack responsibilities, workflows, model selection, and training gates.
- Frontier lab terms audit Eight organizations compared on IP, training permissions, attribution, and compensation.
- SS-SIP license draft A custom license draft for source sharing, contributor credit, and influence notices.
- Syndicate marketplace terms Opt-in listings, commissions, creator rewards, payouts, and appeals.
Latest changes
Each commit to the repository gets a page. A machine writes the summaries from the change, so read the source before you quote a summary.
- Public reading list now points to the Super Anthropocene article on sovsrc.ai The public reading list now directs readers to The Super Anthropocene and the Value of Human Contribution on sovsrc.ai.
- New Super Anthropocene article examines proposed contributor rewards A new opinion article proposes voluntary contributor rewards that connect AI revenue with continuing knowledge creation. It describes an operating rewards platform as an ambition.
- New analysis examines Harness2 for proposed sovereign AI development A new article examines Harness2 as a possible component for proposed sovereign AI workflows. It describes integration possibilities, licensing considerations and evaluation limits.
Tell us what the specification gets wrong
The project is open for review. If you make source material, work on rights, or build models, read the drafts and send us your objections.