AI Policy

Updated 19 February 2026

This policy was inspired by Kirstin Martin’s AI Policy.

What is GenAI?

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is defined by Wikipedia today (19 Feb 2026) as “a subfield of artificial intelligence that uses generative models to generate text, images, videos, audio, software code or other forms of data. These models learn the underlying patterns and structures of their training data, and use them to generate new data in response to input, which often takes the form of natural language prompts.”

What is my current GenAI Policy?

The short version:

Unless otherwise explicitly stated, I currently do not use GenAI to generate any of my creative work (writings, drawings, photography). I do use Lumo—an open-source, privacy-focused, encrypted AI that does not use my work to train its model—for things like checking grammar, outlining, as well as organizing/summarizing my brainstorms and original writing.

The long version:

Writings

All of my writings—including my journal entries, creative writing and poetry, Materia Mythica plant profiles, podcast scripts, newsletters, and any other short- or long-form writing on my website, on my patron platform, or anywhere else that exists in the world—are written by me, not created via GenAI.

I use various apps to proofread my texts for grammar, transcribe my audio and video recordings, generate outlines of my personal audio notes, translate parts of my texts to/from Greek, organize/outline my brainstorm sessions (whether in written or audio form), and summarize/shorten my original texts for various uses (such as webpage SEO descriptions). One of the apps I use is called Lumo— an open-source, encrypted AI model created by the privacy-focused, Swiss tech company Proton. Lumo does not use my work to train its model, which is why I choose it over other forms of AI for the tasks I listed.

Drawings

My drawings are hand-drawn on my iPad using an app called Procreate, not created via GenAI.

Photography

My self-portraits and nature photography were taken on a DSLR camera and/or an iPhone, not created via GenAI.

Why is this my Policy?

Technology is incredible—it’s how I’m able to share my work with the world. I also have a lot of concerns about GenAI and its impact on creativity, spirituality, and our connection with Nature. Deepfakes, the unauthorized scraping of artists’ and writers’ creative material for model training, not to mention the sheer amount of energy it takes to use GenAI…for those reasons and more, I choose right now to avoid GenAI in the creation of my art.

Also, I’m a writer. That means I write. I cannot and do not ask a machine to do it for me.