HQ(5)
Customized
The human took an AI first draft and invested significant time customizing it — expanding sections, restructuring the argument, adding their own ideas. The AI provided a starting point; the human made it theirs. The final output reflects the human's intent more than the AI's defaults.
The creator's attestation
The AI gave me a starting point. I made it mine.
HQ is a self-assessment. The creator assigns this number because they are the one who knows how the work was made. This is an attestation — a declaration by the person who created the content.
Examples
- Writing You generate a draft, then spend 30 minutes rewriting and expanding it
- Writing You use AI for an outline, then write the full piece yourself based on it
- Visual You generate a base image with AI, then spend an hour compositing, editing, and adding elements in Photoshop
- Audio You generate a chord progression with AI, then build a full arrangement around it yourself
- Code You generate a scaffold with AI, then implement the logic yourself based on your design
Link to this level: humanquotient.ai/scale/5