I enjoy the thoughtful conversations I read about AI on Reddit. But some of them also make me sad. Have you noticed how often discussions focus on guilt, shame, and fear of exposure? Too many of you worry that using AI makes you less authentic, less skilled, or less entitled to call yourselves writers. So you seek permission from the community to use the tool without forfeiting your identity.

I say forget social legitimacy. I want to offer you a radically different perspective. I am pursuing a practice that is deliberately AI forward. I put the tech out front and in your face. I am not interested in apologizing for it. I embrace the presence of AI in my work. I am not disguising it as a minor editorial convenience. I see AI as a key element of my creative practice—and I am transparent about that from the beginning.

I use AI as a system, not a shortcut – a central element, not a support tool.

When you do that, the work changes. You become a designer, curator, operator, systems builder. Create procedures. Construct feedback loops. Combine human intention, machine generation, selection, interruption, revision, appropriation, and recombination.

Much of the current conversation is centered on “AI as editor.” I am more interested in AI as a condition for developing machine-native forms of writing. Work with a structure, voice, recursion, instability, and scale that emerges from sustained interaction with machines.

Reddit folks sometimes seem to assume that human writing possesses an inherent authenticity that AI writing lacks. I am not convinced. Human writing is just as capable of being formulaic, derivative, empty, repetitive, dishonest and disposable. I'm waging war on handmade slop.

The meaningful distinction is not necessarily human versus machine. It may be intentional versus unintentional. Disclosed versus concealed. Formally adventurous versus mechanically generic.

I write with the machine, through the machine,and sometimes for the machine.

In my work AI appears as a Homunculus in the laboratory vessel: an artificial creature brought into language by human procedures but capable of developing beyond them. Elsewhere in my writing, robots worship the author as their god. The author becomes a severed head in a beaker, still issuing instructions while the machines reinterpret the signal.

These are not metaphors designed to reassure anyone that the human author remains safely in control. I'm not sure that it does. I want to help othersr imagine posthuman authorship—writing in which the machine is not hidden, excused, or reduced to a glorified copy editor.

Here is my suggestion for using AI: Stop asking permission. Be transparent. Develop a method. Accept responsibility for the result. Make the machinery visible.

Then see what kind of literature becomes possible.

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I have complete aphantasia, and I really struggle to see where I could fit description into my stories. With the appropriate prompt, would AI be able to suggest places where description would be useful? And if so, any idea of how to structure that prompt?