AI disclosure
No part of my books was written with AI. My latest book was completed in early 2021. AI didn't come out till almost two years later
Some text on this blog, my social media bio, and the alt text for my social images was written with Claude—this means I gave AI what I had written or photographed and asked it to write summaries or descriptions for me, then I edited them
My photos are not AI—they're the unedited product of various cameras. The only visual AI that I show is my Midjourney album and the gallerygoer image on this page. However, two of my photo albums were curated with OpenAI—this means I used AI to decide which photos to include in those albums
What's AI:
Some text on this blog
- The italicized blurb introducing each book. I told Claude to read each book and generate a blurb consisting of a brief summary, a content warning listing every item in the book that needed a warning, and a surprsing, funny, or characteristic quote from the book. I edited what I got back
- The paragraph on the homepage. I told Claude to read my About me page and come up with some introductory text. I edited what it gave me
My social media bio
I told Claude to make a social media bio using words from my About me page. I edited that into the bio I use:
The alt text for my social images
My Midjourney album
The gallerygoer image on this page
The curation of two photo albums
- My Provoke D100 album was curated with OpenAI to show photos that strongly fit the Provoke aesthetic (Provoke was a photographic movement in 1960s Japan)
- My Dreamspy album was curated with OpenAI to show photos that are like spying on a dream or asking for your dream to be spied on
When I shot Provoke and Dreamspy photographs, I knew what I was shooting for: I read about Provoke and took pictures with historical Provoke photos and Provoke principles in mind. With Dreamspy, I used AI to distill the definition of spying on a dream (from an existing set of my photos) and I shot with that definition in mind. When curating, AI selected from the photos that I took to arrive at the photos that I show