05/28/2026
Have you noticed that sometimes I sign off posts with “Copy written by me, not AI?”
I love using AI. I use it every day in my life and business, but I refuse to let it replace my thinking, thought leadership, and writing.
I started adding an authorship credit to the bottom of some of my posts as a signal to folks that not everything you read on the internet was written by an LLM. There are still people out there, like me, who value their own thinking and create their own thought leadership.
But can you tell the difference?
In some cases, AI slop is obvious, but as the technology advances and improves, it will be harder for people to know the source of truth: is it human, or was it AI?
I’ve been doing this now and then as a trust signal, so you know what you are reading is coming from my brain as an experienced thought leader who has walked the path you are on and has the credibility to show you the way.
Here’s what I want you to consider today:
1. What is your philosophy around using AI? Do you have guardrails, rules, or boundaries around what you will and won’t use it for?
2. Whose advice do you trust online, and do you care if it was generated by AI? Not every human’s advice is sound , and now much of it is being artificially created. Can you tell the difference? Do you know who to trust?
3. When it comes to your own content creation, are you the thought leader, or is it AI? AI is a tool that can definitely help you, but treating it like a replacement for your own thinking and writing is doing both you and your customer a disservice.
The world is changing, and the way we use AI is evolving rapidly. You have to choose whether you are allowing AI to lead you or if you are leading AI. The best way to choose is to educate yourself on how these tools work and set clear guidelines around how you intend to use them.
P.S. In case you were wondering, this copy was not written by AI!