Image provenance

The statement

Every image published on this site is an AI-generated illustrative visualisation.

None of them depicts a real Lolwe AI deployment, a client site, a member of staff or a piece of equipment we have installed. The hands in them are not our operators' hands. The rooms in them are not rooms we have worked in. They illustrate a kind of work and a kind of terrain, because we do not yet hold photographs of our own and would rather publish a labelled illustration than an unlabelled implication.

This matters more here than on most sites. A page arguing that a deployment should be described exactly cannot illustrate itself with images that imply work it has not done.

What every generated image carries

The visible caption, on every plate, without exception:

ILLUSTRATIVE VISUALISATION — AI-generated. Not a photograph of a Lolwe AI deployment or client site.

And the alt text supplied to screen readers, scrapers and summarisers always begins with the same prefix, before any description:

Illustrative visualisation:

How the disclosure is enforced

The labelling is structural rather than editorial, because editorial discipline is exactly what fails on the fourth page of a busy week.

• Generated images render only through one component, and it has no caption prop. The caption is a constant inside it. There is no way to render the image without the caption, and no way to substitute a different one from a call site.
• That component has no alt prop. Alt text is assembled from a central registry and always placed behind the disclosure prefix, so the label reaches assistive technology and automated readers, not only sighted visitors.
• It has no image prop. It accepts a code that indexes the registry, so an unregistered image cannot be introduced at a call site.
• Captions are permanently visible. Never behind a hover, never in a tooltip, never collapsed on a narrow screen.
• Real photographs use a separate component that carries no illustrative label. The two are deliberately not one component with a flag, because mislabelling a real photograph as generated is a worse error than the reverse.

Real photographs

There are none on this site at present. When a photograph of an actual deployment exists, with the client's agreement, it will be published through the separate component and captioned as a real photograph with its date and place — and it will outrank every illustration here.

Editing

Generated images are not retouched to imply capability: no invented interfaces, no readable screens, no equipment we do not use. They are graded for consistency and nothing else.