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Style guide for AI
Language rules for how I talk about AI in my work.
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Some language rules I’ve landed on when talking about AI in my content:
- AI doesn’t “write”. AI generates. I’m the only one who writes.
- Active voice, human agency. Always disclose agency and ascribe it to the right party: the human. “I built this with Claude”, not “this was built with AI”.
- “Co-created” means I directed, Claude generated. Not the other way around.
- AI is a tool, not a collaborator. It doesn’t have agency for human tasks. I research, I decide, I build. “I used Claude to research the approach”, not “we co-researched” or “Claude researched”.
- No AI manipulation in the in-between steps. When Claude updates my content, it shows me the exact text, not a paraphrase or reinterpretation. What I approve is what gets written.