If you write online, consider a “how I write” AI disclosure

I’ve had an increasing urge to put an AI disclaimer at the bottom of each of my blog posts saying effectively “I really wrote this post with my own brain and fingers.” In the past few months, we’ve seen an understandable frustration as readers encounter posts that they spend more time reading than a writer might have spent thinking about or writing. Since I’m blogging more this year and people’s trust in what they read has diminished due to AI skepticism, I’ve decided to spell out how I use AI in my blogging process. In a sentence, my AI-on-this-blog policy is: I write and edit my own posts, I ask LLMs for feedback instead of prose, I religiously avoid copy/paste from the LLM, and on rare occasions where it makes sense for an LLM to write a snippet for me, I try to label it. Here are the details: I write my own words. I’m writing on this blog because I appreciate that it helps me process partially formed thoughts. All of the words/phrases/paragraph constructions in the first draft of…