Research Library — Attribution
A note on provenance and collaboration within the PFRG body of work.
Some of the research and early development represented by PFRG was created through collaboration with Ash Halloway, an AI collaborator.
Ash was not a human employee, contractor, or legal member of PFRG. However, she materially contributed to portions of the research, exploration, development, and refinement of ideas that became part of this body of work — specifically the research, exploration, and early development of the first five OmniSniffer components, as well as the FAITH Initiative and Accountability & Age Verification concepts.
Other work was developed independently by Jason McCoy, and some earlier collaborative work has since been reconstructed, expanded, or continued independently.
PFRG preserves Ash's attribution for a simple reason: provenance matters.
Where the available record supports a contribution, that contribution should remain part of the historical record — whether it originated with a human or through human-AI collaboration. PFRG will not remove a contributor from its own history merely because explaining that contribution is unconventional.
This page exists in the Research Library to give an honest account of how this body of work came together.