Artificial Intelligence and Me

This is a for-the-record sort of a post.

• Every word on this blog was written by me or a guest blogger without the use of AI.
• I will never turn over any of my writing process to a large language model or any other form of AI. 
• Every word I have written for publication at SFCV, the S.F. Chronicle, Parterre Box, The NY Times, Opera, Opera News, Opera Now, Musical American, and any publications I have accidentally omitted was written by me or suggested by a human editor. (Let me here express gratitude to my editors, who have saved me from myself an infinite number of times and improved my prose on numerous occasions. Any errors in anything I have written are my responsibility, of course.)
• The transcription tools I use, Rev and Zoom, incorporate artificial intelligence in their transcription processes. 
• I listen to recordings to make sure that any quotations are accurate. 
• I do not miss the days of spending five hours personally transcribing a one-hour interview. 
• I do not read Rev's AI summaries of interviews. I did once. It was amazingly accurate. But it's more important for me to read an interview and analyze it myself.
• It is possible or probable that the spelling and grammar checking tools built into current word processors (Word, Google Docs, Pages) rely on large language models for the feedback they provide. I do not turn off spelling and grammar checkers. Hmm. Am I a hypocrite? I used those tools before AI became ubiquitous.
• I've never consulted a large language model or any form of AI (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, etc.).
• I add the -ai flag when I use Google for web searches. I don't want to see the damned AI summaries.