What can I say? This site has been made impure by AI

You can get a badge for your blog declaring that you never, ever use AI. While it’s true that I never, ever use AI for my writing, I did use it once to make a graphic for an April Fools Day joke about how Apple is making the corners on its windows rounder than ever. Also, I use AI quite a bit to help me with coding problems, although I can’t remember if I’ve done this for Newsonaut. Let’s just say it’s possible. I definitely used it to help me create a WordPress theme from scratch for my wife’s blog, The Animal Reporter. It used to be the common wisdom was to take someone else’s theme and tweak it. I always hated this because it took away my creative freedom. I initially thought of using WordPress for Newsonaut back in 2010 when it started up, but could not get my head around it. I settled on Textpattern for this reason, and have been happy with it ever since. It makes me glad there was no AI back then because I believe to this day that Textpattern is the better choice. Still, AI has…