Hi there. I’m noticing much more conversation around fiction writers’ use of large-language models (LLMs, colloquially referred to as generative artificial intelligence [AI] even though that’s just marketing and we haven’t actually created AI yet). Specifically, we live in a murky time, and readers question whether writers use AI. Writers are having to show receipts to prove they wrote what they wrote, and it’s not only affecting their reputation but also their livelihoods, since publishing companies are companies and (at least for the time being) don’t want to work with writers who use generative AI because (at least for the time being) it’s unpopular and makes them vulnerable to litigation.

That is bananas.

But I get it. The companies that created generative AI were really stupid, reckless, and irresponsible, and they have not, as yet, provided any tools or resources to reliably determine the content their products generate was, in fact, generated by those products. That has left us honest folks with little recourse to determine what is AI and what is human.

So as part of an effort to assure any future readers of my writing, including agents, editors, publishers, et al. who may be interested in working with me, let me simply attest here that

I never have and never will use generative AI or LLMs to create any part of any creative project.

My creative work is and always will be 100-percent human.

For posterity, here’s a link to my blogs on the matter.

This is a living page. I’ll amend and add to it as is necessary, but if you’re reading it, it’s current, and you can hold me to the commitments I’ve made herein.