I live in Los Angeles, where the pollution is visible.
But we live with it.
Why?
Honestly, I don't always know.
Probably because it's a beautiful place with a lot to offer — and most of what matters here is worth the trade-off.
Same with the internet right now.
There's a lot of junk polluting our online world.
AI-generated garbage dressed up as content: hundreds of pages of hollow text that technically answers a search query and says nothing to an actual human being.
You've read it.
It has that specific texture of words arranged rather than written; sentences that are technically correct and somehow completely empty.
I'm not interested in producing that.
I'd rather publish nothing.
Here's Where I Actually Stand
I was a professional copywriter for over a decade. Much of my work is tied to an NDA.
I left that career to pursue art and poetry because I genuinely love writing. The process. The search for the right word in the right place. The moment a line clicks.
I'm not handing that over to a machine.
But I'm also not pretending AI doesn't exist or that I don't use it.
That would be dishonest.
And your trust means more to me than anything else I could get from this site.
So here's the truth about my process:
A human being — me — will always write the content featured on this website.
AI does not write my essays, my poems, my stories, or my guides. What it does do is help me research, outline, brainstorm, and proofread. The thinking, voice, specific personal stories, frameworks, perspective, and writing are mine. And always will be.
— Michael
