i use assistive ai tools in my research, planning, and writing process to streamline my creative development process and save time. this means that some of my recent stories were written with the help of tools like character.ai, chatgpt, claude, and gemini. these tools are used as creative laboratories, mainly for roleplay, testing, researching, inspirational visualization, planning, organization, and continuity and canon logging and checking. all characters and drafts were ideated, developed, written, and fully edited by me. no part generated by ai have been used and published raw without fact-checking or development and line editing. all drafts have also been beta-read by human readers prior to publishing.

i am currently learning as much as i can about assistive and generative artificial intelligence, the scopeof which includes potentials, risks, challenges, and social, economic, environmental, and political impacts to the world at large. this page will be updated for any further key learnings, and developments to the best of my abilities.

as of publishing (august 2026), below are my personal guardrails and policies for using ai in my creative work:

1. all story ideas, premises, plot lines, and character backstories will always be originally written by me
2. all initial drafts will primarily be written first by me, not by ai
3. ai shall be used only for non-generative purposes, specifically three things: learning (i.e., research, data validation, deep analysis), correcting (i.e., line editing, developmental editing, fact-checking, citations, etc.), and summarizing (i.e., logging, organizing, systematizing, listing, archiving)
4. every single word or line generated by ai will be thoroughly read and edited by me
5. all ai platforms used during the creative process were properly researched, learned, and trained based on my writing and research needs; audits, updates, and trainings are done quarterly (or whenever necessary) with proper handovers and backups
6. all llm used are paid for and checked for privacy settings to ensure that my work is not being used for platform-wide training
7. any work with generative ai will be labeled properly and transparently disclosed; any work with generative ai will also not be considered fully copyrighted and will not be sold or profited from
8. any work created with non-generative ai will also be labeled properly; general author notes will not be processed via ai and any text written and published in full lowercase are raw and mine