IMPRINT vocabulary

AI Reduction Protocol

The AI Reduction Protocol is an optional commitment an IMPRINT user makes to limit their own AI use for a fixed window. It is self-imposed and self-reported; IMPRINT does not block or monitor any tool.

Written by Suman Debnath, creator of IMPRINTLast updated 5 September 2026
IMPRINT’s own term. This is product vocabulary, not established science. It is defined here so the measurement can be checked rather than taken on trust — the arithmetic is on the methodology page.

In more detail

The Protocol exists because measurement alone rarely changes behaviour. A score tells you the direction of travel; a commitment with a defined end date is what people actually act on, and the fixed window matters more than the severity.

IMPRINT deliberately does not enforce it. There is no blocker, no extension, no monitoring of what you open — partly because such enforcement is trivially circumvented, and mostly because a capability protected only by a blocked website was not being protected.

Its effect appears indirectly, through the signals already being measured: more practice logged in the Vault, more regular journal entries, fewer dependency flags from the Mirror.