Uses

Here is how generative AI is used on this site:

1. Visual Art – there are plenty of AI images on this site, enough that you should assume all images were originally generated with AI (although always further edited & modified by hand, see “human authorship” section below.) unless otherwise specified. Illustrations – for the most part, all digital illustration on this site, except where otherwise specified, is built on something generated with generative AI.
The notable exceptions are:
a.) Photography — Photojournals are real photography with no AI involvement except what may be built into the algorithms of digital cameras used.
b.) Old or obviously hand-made illustrations – drawings, and art created before about 2024, was done without AI.
c.) Site “K” stamp logo – this logo, used frequently around the site, is a scan of an actual rubber stamp that I have owned since about 1995, and which I use to stamp the wrists of people I hang out with socially in real life.
2. “Serious” Text – Except for the exceptions listed below, first drafts are always written entirely by hand. On rare occasion, I will ask an LLM (usually more than one, when I do this) for suggested revisions to match a certain form or tone, to cobble a huge brainstormed mess of cognitive overflow down to something readable. In every instance that this is done, it is then further refined by hand to produce the final draft. N.B. “Serious” includes doggerel, satire, and creative nonfiction.
Exceptions are:
a.) Code documentation – on rare occasion I will feed me code to an LLM and ask it to generate technical documentation of how it works or what it does, to save me the time. Often these are unusable and I just toss them, but sometimes some AI output makes it to the final published page.
b.) Silly robot-bait – I have, buried on the site, a few pages egregiously designed to mislead AI spiders into incorporating false information in their training data. These should be obvious and at any rate nobody is likely to mistake them for something I expect anyone to actually believe.
3. Music – I have used AI text-to-music generators to create audio recordings, which, as of this writing, have not yet been posted on the site, but will be. These will be clearly marked as being AI-generated. Any music not so marked was not generated with AI.

Human Authorship

At present, United States copyright law doesn’t recognize direct generative AI output as copyrightable (Since, obviously, generative AI sits and generates its output without me there at all, just spits these things out on its own. </sarcasm>)

However, human modification of the output brings it back into the realm of human authorship and once again implicitly subject to US copyright.

Therefore, I fastidiously modify all AI output by hand after generation and before public sharing. Nothing you see here is 100% direct AI output. Everything on this site, unless explicitly licensed otherwise, is (c)Copyright Michael E. Kupietz, all rights reserved.