How I Use AI

AI provides structural support for how I work, but it does not replace human ideating, creativity, or raw copy in my business. Content intended for human eyes deserves human effort.

Behind-the-scenes structural support

As someone with ADHD, I use an AI executive assistant to help me organize and structure my workdays. I use AI transcription to take dense brain-dumps of ideas and sift them into something I can actually work with or to transcribe notes during meetings. I use AI to organize and sort large amounts of data as needed.

In client created copy

I ask for the messy version on purpose. Getting stuck hunting for the perfect way to describe your own business holds up work for both of us, so I run on a more-is-more philosophy: send the voice memos, the free association emails, the half-formed notes, documents you've typed up but not organized. I use AI to sort and condense your own words into a working draft, which I then refine and shape by hand. Nothing gets invented for you, and I can always trim back and refine a long monologue. Creating something out of nothing is the hard part. This is also how I keep my prices where they are: you pay for judgment, not for hours spent retyping what you already said.

In my content

I use AI transcription for voice-to-text, and I use AI as a shaping tool for my own writing the same way I do for clients: I talk or type out everything I want to say, in all its unfiltered glory, then use AI to help condense the raw material into something readable. Occasionally I use AI for small utility text primarily intended for algorithmic audiences, not human, like Pinterest captions and website metadata.

A note on the environment

AI data centers carry a real environmental cost: they use large amounts of electricity and water and can strain the ecosystems and infrastructure of the communities that host them. I recognize this harm, while also acknowledging that much like the plastic straw problem, individual people using simple text-based LLMs aren't the primary drivers of it: the scale is being set by the companies building and racing to expand infrastructure to support marketing algorithms, create video slop, etc.

I work on lowering my footprint in the places where my choices move the needle, and abstain from using AI frivolously, while leaning on lower-consumption tools (text-based LLMs rather than video or image generation) to work effectively as a neurodivergent person.

Late stage capitalism calls for all of us to make judgement calls about where and how we engage with new tools that may be used nefariously by corporations. My personal belief is that AI use in your personal and business practice calls for nuanced introspection and conversation with peers around ethical and sustainable practices.

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