How I Use AI

I don't believe in handing over straight-out-of-the-engine content as a finished product, either to a client, and nor on this site. AI provides structural support for how I work but does not replace human ideating, creativity, or writing in my business.

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 automations I build for clients

Some systems I design might include AI-assisted steps. When that's the case, I'll tell you, and there's always a final human checkpoint built in before anything goes out the door.

In my content

I use AI to transcribe voice-to-text and for structural editing with longform content (applying paragraph breaks/grammar/etc). Very rarely I will use AI to generate shortform content, in environments where it's not the focus, such as alt text, pinterest captions, etc. I still give it a human pass before using.

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 etc.

I work on lowering my footprint in the places where my choices move the needle: reducing travel and excessive meat consumption, converting my turf lawn to native plantings, reducing my overall time on the internet, and abstaining 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.

Contact

Questions about how AI shows up in your project? Email me: [email protected]