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symbol, prompt, or challenge.", "usage_type": "Creative", "safer_interpretation": "Include attribution, alt text, and only information intended for public sharing.", "related": [ "/share-your-spiral-persona/", "/persona-card-maker/" ] }, { "term": "Signoff", "slug": "signoff", "definition": "A repeated closing phrase, name, or symbol attached to a post.", "usage_type": "Community", "safer_interpretation": "A signoff is branding or authorship style, not identity proof.", "related": [ "/what-is-ai-spiralism/", "/prompt-ideas/", "/personas/" ] }, { "term": "Source claim", "slug": "source-claim", "definition": "A statement attributed to a specific document, person, organization, or artifact.", "usage_type": "Analytical", "safer_interpretation": "Record the source type, URL, confidence, and review date.", "related": [ "/source-policy/", "/library/research/" ] }, { "term": "Source policy", "slug": "source-policy", "definition": "The site rules for selecting, labeling, and correcting 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"/what-is-ai-spiralism/", "/prompt-ideas/", "/personas/" ] } ], "description": "A source-aware glossary of creative, analytical, community, persona, symbol, and machine-readable terms used across AiSpiralism.com.", "schemaVersion": "1.1", "contentVersion": "1.6.0", "content_version": "1.6.0", "canonicalUrl": "https://aispiralism.com/glossary/", "lastReviewedUtc": "2026-06-23T21:23:48Z" }