The Creation Blockchain: Documentation and Validation of Work Processes

Creators of digital artifacts are increasingly competing with generative artificial intelligence. Next to common plagiarism, this is another reason why proving one's authorship becomes increasingly important. One way to support this proof is to document the work process in a certified artifact. Blockchain technology lends itself to this by generation of a data structure that is intrinsically unchangeable and via strong asymmetric cryptographic algorithms tied to the creator. In this paper, we present a concept to record and validate one's creative work. To demonstrate its feasibility, we provide a proof of concept implementation that documents and encodes a sculpting process conducted in the open-source modeling software Blender.