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| author | Nicholas Johnson <> | 2025-11-30 00:00:00 +0000 |
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diff --git a/content/entry/please-disclose-ai-contributions-to-your-work.md b/content/entry/please-disclose-ai-contributions-to-your-work.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ff92c3d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/entry/please-disclose-ai-contributions-to-your-work.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- +title: "Please Disclose AI Contributions to Your Work" +date: 2025-11-30T00:00:00Z +tags: ['computing'] +draft: false +--- +If you're working on a creative project that others will see, such as an online journal like mine, please disclose A.I. contributions to your work. + +I personally have very little interest in creative works like books, websites, blogs, movies, music, and artwork that was produced by A.I. and I think many people feel similarly. We like getting to know the human(s) behind those works, through their works. We like discovering what motivated them to create it and what experiences they had that went into it. + +We know that A.I. could produce it a million times faster and better, but the process by which it was created also matters to us. As I said back in my entry "[Automation and the Meaning of Work](/2022/09/07/automation-and-the-meaning-of-work/ "Journal Entry: Automation and the Meaning of Work")", there are certain activities people just don't want to be automated, even if they can be automated and the end product is better by some objective measure. + +So to respect that wish, if you use A.I. tools in the course of your creative work, the least you can do is make the nature of their contribution known to those who might find your work so that they can choose for themselves if they're interested in it. I'll lead by example: + +I don't use A.I. tools to write this journal, nor do I plan to. I don't use A.I. tools to generate ideas for writing either—I prefer to come up with ideas myself. In the past, I used an automated tool, which included an NLP library, to detect and correct grammatical mistakes. I wasn't restructuring whole paragraphs with it. I write without LLMs because I enjoy writing and because I want to give my readers the chance to get to know me through my writing, as opposed to what some LLM thinks the next word should be. |