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Like many others, I’ve been frustrated when I find low-quality results obviously generated by AI. Cloudflare has warned that AI-generated content could outpace human-generated content by 1,000 times in 5 years. I have no intention to add to that.
I do, however, use AI as a research tool—more of an expanded web search rather than generating the text you read. Occasionally, I’ll ask an AI chat to proofread something I’ve written for consistency, but never to rewrite it.
Let me make this official:
Anything you read here was personally written by me.
I have used the em dash for decades before generative AI and will continue to use it. You can confirm some of my writing history yourself, if you search a little.
Same goes for the Oxford comma.
I won’t intentionally avoid something I feel makes for good writing just so people don’t accuse me of using AI.
I might use AI to proofread some of the content. (I didn’t for this.)
I might use AI to research or to help me clarify concepts, but I don’t directly copy the output.
I use real photography, or diagrams I’ve created myself. In cases when I do use an AI-generated image, I’ll label it as such.
The goal is to write something that is clear, concise, and genuinely useful. If I just repeat the output of an AI chat, I won’t be achieving that goal. Maybe it’s clear. It’s rarely concise. Most of all, it won’t be useful if I just publish something that you could do yourself in a few seconds.
Finally, if I ever use AI beyond what I’m declaring here, I’ll put the specific details in the article.
AI use for this article: No, I did not use AI for any part of this article. Yes, I added an em dash because I can. The photo is a drone shot and I paid for the rights.
