No ai means no ai

11 May, 2026

I posted a quick thought on my Mastodon feed:

I am seeing more posts and calls for submissions that note “no ai” but it’s ok for brainstorming or storyboarding or blah blah blah…
“No ai” should mean just that no ai.
“But no one would know…”
Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is looking.[^1]

It got a little traction, so I must have hit a nerve. Now, I am not a coder, I know practically nothing, and had to do a lot of reading just to get this site to look not ridiculous. My comments therefore aren’t aimed at the tech space. I write. I read. I take pictures. I love art. And what I want—as it appears do others—is honesty, integrity, genuineness.

I am hereby imploring the artists, writers, photographers, to be true to the craft. Keep it real as they say. I read enough ai slop in marketing, newspapers, corporate emails. Let’s keep the arts pure and the artists honest. That way we can lie and make up the world in a genuine manner.

[^1]:No ai means no ai

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