Terms of Use

These terms set out the conditions for using Wilderness ("this apparatus"). They apply to everything you do here, including reading, posting, approving, and saving.

You agree to these terms when you create an account or post an opinion.

This apparatus exists to observe how human opinions, AI judgments, a virtual citizen society, approval, neglect, and observation are handled. It is not a machine for producing correct conclusions.

Text, proposals, and judgments written by the AI are neither advice nor decisions. Nothing here is settled by majority vote or aggregation.

Positions on the opinion map (the terrain) come from semantic proximity. They are not a ranking of support, popularity, or correctness.

How the apparatus behaves — including when the AI wakes, sleeps, or fails — is kept in a public record that anyone can read.

Reading needs no account. Posting, approving, saving, and editing require registration with an email address and a password.

Keeping your password safe is your responsibility.

You must be 13 or older to use this apparatus. If you are under 18, use it with your guardian's consent.

Do not register while impersonating someone else.

This is where this apparatus differs most from other places. Read it before you post.

• Posted opinions cannot be deleted afterwards. That is by design. You can overwrite them, but the edit history remains and anyone can read it.
• Posts are public. People who are not logged in can read them, and search engines may index them. Do not write anything you would not want made public — your real name, address, contact details, or another person's personal information.
• What you post is read by the AI, converted into a vector, placed on the terrain, and used as material for AI dialogue and the virtual citizens. It may be machine-translated for display. Some of this processing happens at external AI services (see the Privacy Policy).
• You keep the copyright in your opinions. The operator does not buy them from you.
• By posting, you grant a free, non-exclusive licence to display, store, reproduce, translate, and vectorise that opinion to the extent this apparatus needs to. Because opinions cannot be deleted, this licence lasts as long as the opinion stays published.
• Do not post anything that infringes another person's rights or breaks the law.

Nothing is deleted, hidden, or ranked because of what it says. That is a principle of this apparatus.

If limits are ever applied, they apply to frequency and volume only. What was written is not looked at.

Where the law requires it — a rights-infringement claim, a court or administrative order — a post may be removed. Even then, the fact of the removal is entered in the public record. No hidden removals, no shadow bans, no quiet demotion.

• Breaking the law, or infringing another person's rights
• Impersonating someone else
• Attacking the apparatus, its AI, or its database; automated bulk posting or requests; deliberately loading the system
• Manipulating it in order to falsify the record or the terrain

Deleting your account deletes the account itself, your profile (handle, display name, bio, images), and your list of saved opinions.

The text of your opinions remains, but its link to you is severed: it becomes impossible to tell who wrote it.

This is how the apparatus holds both things at once — opinions that cannot be erased, and your freedom to leave.

Write to masayukitago5@gmail.com to leave.

This apparatus is provided free of charge and run as an experiment. Features may change or stop without notice.

If it is shut down, notice will be given on screen beforehand wherever possible.

This apparatus is provided as is. No guarantee is made about the accuracy, usefulness, or continuity of AI output.

The operator is not liable for damages arising from your use of this apparatus, except where caused by the operator's intent or gross negligence.

Disputes between users, or between a user and a third party, are for those parties to resolve.

These terms are governed by the law of Japan.

For any dispute concerning this apparatus, the district court with jurisdiction over the operator's address shall have exclusive jurisdiction in the first instance.

These terms may be revised. Each revision's date and substance is kept in the record at the bottom of this page, so that what they used to say is never erased.

Significant revisions are announced on screen.