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The AI But Human Manifesto

The Tools Are New.
The Voice Is Still Mine.

Where I stand on making art with AI, written plainly, so nobody has to guess.

I use AI. In some of my art. In some of my music production. In parts of how I organize and edit my writing. I’m not going to pretend otherwise, and I’m not going to bury it in fine print either.

Here’s the plain version: the tools are new. The voice is still mine.

A tool doesn’t get to decide what a piece means. I do.

Every book on the Books page, I wrote. The sentences, the structure, the argument — mine, sometimes with an editor’s help, the same as any writer. Under Infinite Canvas AI, the images are generated with AI tools, directed and selected by me, usually built around a real story from my life or the endometriosis work. The music runs the widest range: some of it is me on guitar, learning as I go; some of it leans more heavily on production tools. I’d rather tell you that than let you assume either way.

What I won’t do: pass off a machine’s output as a memory I don’t have, a feeling I didn’t feel, or a person I never met. The stories underneath all of this — Kellie, Sammie, Jacob, Cameron, my mom, the women in the endometriosis work — are real. AI helps me say some of it. It doesn’t get to invent any of it.

If that changes for a specific piece, I’ll say so on that piece. That’s the whole policy.

I’ll send you the next one

My letter is called Just an Ordinary Tuesday. Essays mostly, and now and then a song, an episode, some artwork, or something from the advocacy work.

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