Statement on Generative A.I.

The “NO A.I.” disclaimer I put on my books is meant to relay to potential readers that I do not use generative A.I. in my writing. These are all my stories from my own mind.

I do use A.I. for research purposes. As a child of the 90’s, I like to use A.I. the way the crew of the Enterprise used the computer in Star Trek: The Next Generation. I ask it questions like “What is the boiling temperature for liquid Oxygen?” or “What are the hospital procedures concerning an unidentified corpse?” and it gives me an answer.

I will say that early in my writing of “The Recursion” I did ask A.I. to critique some passages I wrote and give me feedback. However, I realized that this was, at best, a “gray” area and I stopped doing it.

When I use A.I., I explicitly tell it NOT to generate text for me. It still will from time to time, but I strongly remind it that I’m the “chef” and it’s just the “spice rack”.

“Give me the spices and let me cook. Don’t do it for me, clanker.” - Me (Probably)

I have also used A.I. to generate book covers, but that was just curiosity on my part. I did use what A.I. generated as a starting point for the graphic artist I employed for “The Recursion”. I may generate more such images, but will never use them for my books. I will only ever use graphic art created by a human for my book covers.

“But a stamp on a book and this statement don’t actually prove you didn’t use A.I. to write some or all of your book!”

Correct. To help prove these are my stories unaided by A.I., I keep all drafts of my books and I have kept a log of all my A.I. interactions.

Full disclosure: I may have missed some conversations due to power outages, but i got most of them. Also, the earliest conversations were all just saved into one long google doc file with no timestamps.

To correct this, I would download weekly conversations as a way to “timestamp” it. I started this on 04/01/26. Then I realized I could just ask A.I. to put a timestamp on all its responses to me on 04/13/26.

I will provide these proofs if it ever becomes necessary.

I can only hope that my writing is so bad, that no one will ever accuse me of using A.I.

Wait! No. Scratch that. That my writing is so “good”, no one will ever accuse me of using A.I.

Phew. Almost embarrassed myself there.

Thank you for reading this statement.

Jeremiah Heilemann