when the author tries to give themselves permission by claiming “everyone uses AI”.

y'all, I am 100% the writer who could get away with a huge amount of automated assistance and no one would blink.

i know which applications to use that won't restrict my voice.

i know how to edit AI scripts to sound human.

I have actively advocated for the use of artist sourced AI generators in schools and group homes so significantly disabled and medically fragile people can experience more holistic forms of creativity that have been denied by development or mobility, so their caretakers can create individual personalized PECS and social stories in minutes instead of days.

I could also explain away why it was completely necessary for my process as a writer fighting terminal illness and brain damage.

I still refuse to let AI generators touch my work.

once you put your work into a generator, even for an opinion, your work has now been inextricably changed by the standards that govern AI because you cannot unread the data. you've integrated it. you trusted a machine over a human.

i'm just not interested in regurgitated creativity having lordship over mine.

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