AI Policy
My AI policy is simple: As the Literary Witch, I work with human beings on human-written books. If you are using generative AI to produce text, you’ll need to find a different book coach.
Allow me to elaborate.
I will not work with you on a book that is wholly or partially generated by AI. I do not take on coaching clients who are using generative AI to produce text. This includes ChatGPT, Claude, or whatever new mutation AI companies have released recently.
Writing is a learnable skill—a craft that you can develop. Yes, this takes time and effort. Yes, generative AI promises to do it instantly. And yet, the result is a hollow text that distorts your perspective and eliminates your ability to develop and grow.
Audiences don’t want it; you don’t benefit from it; I won’t help you create it. I believe that storytelling is a uniquely human act. Using generative AI to output text (or even as a “thought partner”) strips the work of everything that makes you unique and interesting.
Content produced by generative AI is not eligible for copyright in the U.S., which presents a significant problem for thought leaders, academics, and all writers who care about protecting their work. If you want your writing to serve as the basis for a business offering, workshops, keynote speeches, or a creatively fulfilling career, copyright matters.
Generative AI products are built on stolen creative labor (including mine!). Using generative AI to extrude text inevitably means plagiarizing from fellow creatives, many of whom have suffered significant professional harms as a result of the forced adoption of this technology. Generative AI cannot produce work with creative integrity, because a lack of integrity was baked into its creation.
Generative AI is environmentally destructive, produces endless amounts of slop and deliberately harmful content, relies on labor exploitation in the global South, is used to disrupt and deskill labor everywhere, and is linked to state surveillance and violence. There is no possible use case for generative AI that would enable me to overlook all of this.
For these and many other reasons, I do not use generative AI in any capacity and will not provide coaching for people using generative AI to produce text.
You may be wondering, "What if I'm using AI for proofreading or research?"
Some aspects of generative AI are increasingly difficult to escape as tech companies force it into every possible nook and cranny they can think of. Even a simple Google search now returns AI results unless you instruct it not to.
Using AI for proofreading is not automatically disqualifying, although I will strongly encourage you to stop doing that. Recent research has shown that generative AI distorts meaning and introduces bias, even when it is "just" used for proofreading. Hire a human proofreader (I know some! I can introduce you!).
Similarly, encountering generative AI while doing research is not automatically disqualifying, although I will strongly encourage you to thoroughly check every fact and reference. A decent amount of information presented by generative AI will inevitably be outright fake, erroneous, or badly misrepresented.
Below is a list of selected resources and experts that have informed my perspective and stance on generative AI.
Audiences don’t want it; you don’t benefit from it; I won’t help you create it. I believe that storytelling is a uniquely human act. Using generative AI to output text (or even as a “thought partner”) strips the work of everything that makes you unique and interesting.
Content produced by generative AI is not eligible for copyright in the U.S., which presents a significant problem for thought leaders, academics, and all writers who care about protecting their work. If you want your writing to serve as the basis for a business offering, workshops, keynote speeches, or a creatively fulfilling career, copyright matters.
Generative AI products are built on stolen creative labor (including mine!). Using generative AI to extrude text inevitably means plagiarizing from fellow creatives, many of whom have suffered significant professional harms as a result of the forced adoption of this technology. Generative AI cannot produce work with creative integrity, because a lack of integrity was baked into its creation.
Generative AI is environmentally destructive, produces endless amounts of slop and deliberately harmful content, relies on labor exploitation in the global South, is used to disrupt and deskill labor everywhere, and is linked to state surveillance and violence. There is no possible use case for generative AI that would enable me to overlook all of this.
For these and many other reasons, I do not use generative AI in any capacity and will not provide coaching for people using generative AI to produce text.
You may be wondering, "What if I'm using AI for proofreading or research?"
Some aspects of generative AI are increasingly difficult to escape as tech companies force it into every possible nook and cranny they can think of. Even a simple Google search now returns AI results unless you instruct it not to.
Using AI for proofreading is not automatically disqualifying, although I will strongly encourage you to stop doing that. Recent research has shown that generative AI distorts meaning and introduces bias, even when it is "just" used for proofreading. Hire a human proofreader (I know some! I can introduce you!).
Similarly, encountering generative AI while doing research is not automatically disqualifying, although I will strongly encourage you to thoroughly check every fact and reference. A decent amount of information presented by generative AI will inevitably be outright fake, erroneous, or badly misrepresented.
Below is a list of selected resources and experts that have informed my perspective and stance on generative AI.
- The AI Con, by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
- Empire of AI, by Karen Hao
- Blood in the Machine, by Brian Merchant (and his newsletter with the same name)
- Kim Crawley at Stop Gen AI
- Mel Mitchell-Jackson's writing on AI sobriety in their "Persistent Bloom" newsletter
- The newsletter “Where’s Your Ed At” by Ed Zitron
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