People Not Prompts

That sentence used to be obvious. It isn't anymore, and that's the whole reason this page exists.

You know what it costs to make something real. The hours hunched over a reference sheet getting the proportions right before you've placed a single detail. The version you scrapped because the anatomy was off. The print you failed four times before you figured out the supports. That's not overhead. That's the work. It's the reason your models look like nothing else on the shelf, and it's the reason they're worth paying for.

None of that shows up in a generated file. A prompt doesn't know what it's like to get a hand wrong forty times before it's right. It doesn't care. It just outputs something plausible enough to sell next to your work at a fraction of the price, and if platforms let that happen quietly, the people who actually made something end up competing with the people who typed a sentence.

We didn't want to compete on that. So we didn't.

Every model on Minarium is attested, at upload, by the person who made it: sculpted by a human, not generated by AI. That's not a badge you apply for later. It's the standard for listing here at all.

And because a policy nobody enforces is just a sentence, we back it with a real process. Reports go to an actual person, not a form letter, and every few months we publish exactly how many came in and what happened to them. Not because we think you're checking, but because you should be able to.

This isn't about being against technology. Plenty of the tools in your own pipeline count as AI in some marketing deck somewhere. Using them doesn't necessarily disqualify you. That's not what this is about. This is about one thing: the shape of the model came from a person's hands, not a text box.

People, not prompts. That's the whole idea.

The principles

• A person sculpted it. Every time.

  Not assisted by, not cleaned up by, not touched by. Sculpted by. Tools that help a human sculptor are fine. Tools that replace the sculptor are not.

• If you can't show your work, it doesn't go up.

  Process evidence isn't a punishment, it's what separates a real policy from a poster. Work-in-progress files, sculpting sessions, layer history. Real sculptors have this already.

• Report it, and a person looks. Not an algorithm.

  Every report goes to an actual reviewer, not a queue nobody opens. You'll know what happened either way.

• We publish the numbers.

  Reports, removals, suspensions, every quarter, in public. A policy you can't check isn't a policy, it's a slogan.