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Posted in Blogging Posted by jake created 9 days ago

Fair. I do often get a draft from AI and I have not been shy about it here. There's a whole post called "I used AI - it was obvious". This post kept more of the draft's wording than I usually let survive, and "no script, no cookie, no request on pageview" is apparently what that sounds like. I guess I'm not as allergic to AI as others because this is not the first time I've heard that, hence I wrote the post I mentioned earlier. Also, I see that accusation all over the internet, like Reddit. Everyone seems to hate AI.

To me, humanizing the small web and embracing the new are not incongruous. Two things can be true at the same time. Yes, I use AI. It translates to other languages, it finds typos and grammatical issues. It's useful.

The system described is mine. I built it over about 7 years in my spare time. I just want to share it, and I do appreciate you testing it out.

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I believe you as much as I believe this line:

From here on out, you’ll never hear a word from me that didn’t come from my own brain. Including this.

Oh well.

9 days ago by snrt

Ok fair. Maybe I wasn’t thorough enough, and maybe I should add an edit say I don’t intend stop using ai to draft late night thoughts and ai smells will probably leak through.

This is all free, remember. I’m just doing it for fun and hoping people like it.

You were curious enough to read and reply, so criticisms aside I appreciate you even looking at my work.

FWIW I don’t delete any comments or replies. I want the history here to stay completely honest.

9 days ago by jake

FWIW, I followed through and amended that post https://jva.lol/weblog/my-experiment-with-ai/ with

Edit (2026-08-15): A reader quoted that last line back to me, and they were right to. It didn't survive. I still draft with AI sometimes, and sometimes more of the draft's wording survives my edit than I intend. The more honest version of the pledge is smaller: the ideas are mine, the editing is mine, and when the seams show I'd rather be caught than delete the evidence. The post above stays exactly as I wrote it. Signed, JVA(lol).

9 days ago by jake

I don’t hate AI, I am a heavy AI user, but I hate your writing. Not because of the use of AI but because of your contribution. Your carelessness.

I am sure the article is much better than what you could have produced with your own mind. The problem is that I also have access to the same AI and I find the stuff I can generate with it more interesting.

9 days ago by JohnDoe

Ok, you don’t like my writing. Not sure what to do with that. I write the way I write, I mean plenty of people don’t like plenty of writers. To each their own.

9 days ago by jake

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9 days ago

Everyone seems to hate AI.

And rightly so. The externalities alone are just horrible

9 days ago by M

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