100% Human

My writing has always been human-generated (by me). No AI used at all. Not for any stage of the process: brainstorming, outlining, researching, or editing. Not to make my writing flow better (that much should be obvious). Not to write myself out of corners I've written myself into. Not to write taglines or synopses or blurbs. None of that.

But I've used AI-generated cover art on a dozen of my books over the past few years. Until last week, that is, when I gave them a major overhaul with human-generated images instead.

Why'd I make the change? Because I want to be able to say that my work is 100% human. I'm not a big fan of AI, particularly not the deluge of AI-generated books currently crowding the marketplace, and I want my work to stand apart. I don't want my books to have the same style of cover art as AI slop. Plain and simple.

Now when I look for suitable artwork on sites that offer free, commercial-use images, I filter the search to exclude anything generated by artificial intelligence. Sure, the pickings are slimmer. And yeah, I have to work a little harder to make the images fit the themes I'm going for (thankful for Canva). But overall, I'm pleased with the results. 

We'll see if readers notice. From what I've heard, thousands of unsuspecting types have been burned by soulless AI garbage. Hopefully they'll be able to tell at first glance that my stuff is about as diametrically opposed to that as you can get.