Recently I have been seeing examples of people elsewhere oursourcing posts, apologies, and even entire books to artificial intelligence. Needless to say, I am appalled that there are adults doing this. No, writing is not always easy, but resorting to quick-fix solutions like these only implies carelessness as well as incompetence, neither whereof you deserve.

Because of this, I want to interrupt my schedule to spell this out unambiguously: I will never explain history to you through A.I. At most, I may occasionally consult A.I. if I want to get started on researching a subject, and I’ll openly declare that I am relying on a machine translation in the rare instances where I have little choice, but I’ll never use A.I. to write my own topics and I’ll be avoiding A.I.-written works as much as possible. That is my promise to you.

If my own writing seems a little odd — with em dashes and whatnot — that is just an old tendency of mine to formalize my writing (because you deserve only the best). I used to generate those characters with Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator, and now I use the Compose key on Bazzite, and that is how I can easily type these fancy characters. I’ll understand if my tendency now looks suspicious, but I can assure you that it is nothing more than a consequence of my perfectionism, which in turn is a consequence of my obsessive–compulsive disorder. Likewise, I have a tendency to sometimes show off fancy vocabulary and orthography that I recently learned, but you can understand that as either my creativity or my pedantry, depending on your point of view.

You may be wondering how I can tell if somebody used A.I. to generate a book. Doing research on the Kriegsmarine, I came across a certain work (which I can no longer find) that had plausible yet unsourced claims. That was strike one. Looking at the author, I noticed that he generated a lot of books entirely unrelated to history and that he apparently had no background in the field. That was strike two. The smoking gun was that he admitted at either the beginning or the end that he had a little help from artificial intelligence when he composed his work. That was strike three. In short, I scrutinize: verifiable academics with years of experience are highly unlikely to suddenly rely on artificial intelligence.

I care about the quality of my contributions, and if you have evidence to suggest that I unwittingly gave you an A.I.-generated source, let me know and I’ll remove it as quickly as possible. I’ll even delete the topic if it happened to be my only source. Exposing our enemies is too important a task to be trusted in the hands of automata.