AI & Our Creative Process

Tokei Nano is a virtual artist project for a new era, created and directed by human creators. The project explores how a virtual artist can take shape through music, storytelling, and evolving production methods, including AI.

Her voice, performances, and visual presentation may involve AI-assisted or AI-generated material. The core melodies and the main body of her lyrics are written by human authors.

In this statement, “AI” refers specifically to generative AI technologies, including transformer-based models, rather than artificial intelligence technologies as a whole.

Human Authorship at the Core

The core melodies and the main body of Tokei Nano’s lyrics are written by human authors.

AI may help with local refinements, grammar corrections, or wording suggestions. It does not take over the writing of the core melodies or the main body of the lyrics.

Human authors decide which suggestions to accept, revise, or reject. The themes, emotions, and central expression of a song remain grounded in their creative choices.

AI in Performance and Production

Our use of AI extends beyond proofreading or minor edits.

Depending on the work, AI may be used in arranging music, generating or processing singing voices and instrumental performances, mixing, and other stages of audio production.

Human authorship of a song’s core melodies and lyrics does not mean that every sound in the finished recording comes from a human singer or a recorded live performance. We distinguish the authorship of a song from the methods used to bring it into its final recorded form.

Visuals and Related Materials

AI may also be used to generate images and video, develop visual assets, and assist with production documents, descriptive text, and translations.

The extent and nature of AI involvement vary from one work to another. This statement describes our overall approach; it does not mean that every work uses AI in every stage listed here.

Human Direction and Responsibility

AI-generated material does not automatically become part of a finished work. We decide what to select, revise, review, and release, and we take responsibility for the content we publish.

We use AI to expand what we can create and how we can produce it, while keeping human authorship at the core of Tokei Nano’s songs and being open about how our work is made.

An Evolving Approach

This statement is an expression of our creative thinking and working practices, not a legal document.

Both this statement and the Tokei Nano project may evolve as technology, laws and regulations, platform policies, and our own creative understanding develop. When our approach changes, we intend to update this page to reflect it.

The English version is the reference text for this statement. If the Chinese or Japanese wording differs in meaning or leaves room for ambiguity, please refer to the English version.