The app for independent voices

If you want to try this yourself, the prompt matters.

Don't ask an AI to "summarize your writing." Ask it to characterize the person who wrote it.

The difference: summarizing tells you what you said. Characterizing tells you who said it and what they were afraid of.

Specific addition: "Avoid generic psychological language." That instruction alone changes the output from clinical to uncomfortable in the best possible way.

I ran this across six eras of my writing, from 1999 to now. What came back surprised me every time.

Full process—including what broke down and why—is in the essay.

Feeding 25 Years of My Life Into an AI and Surviving It
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