Does Nortantis Use AI?

I received a question via email from someone wanting to know if Nortantis uses AI. Since Amazon requires you to disclose whether images in your published books use AI, this is an important question to answer.

The short answer is no: Nortantis is not AI. It generates landmasses using a tectonic plate simulator, and it creates random text using noun-verb pairs, noun-adjective pairs, and person and place names I extracted from books using a tool that isn't part of the project (and does not use LLMs). The person and place names are fed into an N-gram generator, but that is a very simple model, and I don't think it qualifies as AI. I use AI coding tools to help with development, but using the output of those tools to write code and find bugs is not the same as including AI in the app.

Before version 3.18, Nortantis shipped with a few AI-generated decoration images, but those have since been removed. Nortantis’s available art can be extended with art packs, which may contain AI art depending on how they were created.

In summary, Nortantis does not use AI to create maps, and if you don’t want to use AI in your map, make sure any art packs you use were not created using AI.