Discussion

On The Use of AI

Out of respect to the viewer, I feel the need to clarify the use of AI in the Codex. As of 2025, AI-generated content is easily accessible and found nearly everywhere online. The usage of AI is quite a controversial topic, with some respecting the right to human-created content, and others swearing by the capabilities of AI. Because of this discourse, I want to explain how AI is used in the Codex. For comparative purposes, this entry is written exclusively by myself with no AI involved whatsoever.

How?

The short answer is that AI is utilized in the writing of the Codex. Not to an overwhelming degree, but utilized nonetheless. The long answer is more complicated.

I have used AI to:

I have not used AI to:

Essentially, my use of AI is moderate, and only builds upon what is already written. Every topic is my own. Every response to said topic is my own. The structure of each entry, subsection, and paragraph is my own. The points I am trying to make are my own. I’m not exactly thrilled to say that not every word is my own, but every single word has been directly approved by me countless times. While AI can write an infinite amount, I am still the ultimate judge of whether its words convey what I intend, and I have been quite ruthlessin this process.

Why?

AI is an incredibly useful tool that isn’t going anywhere, and it has been quite convenient with assisting in writing the Codex. It allowed me to write what I desired faster, streamline the structure of my claims, and ensure I wasn’t missing or neglecting anything. But it could have also been overused to remove the originality of my writing, make claims I don’t believe in, or simply create AI-generated slop instead of a profound collection of thought-out proposals to complex questions and topics. I refused to cross that line for the sake of my pride, to keep my message intact, and out of respect for the reader.

While AI has been helpful, nothing it wrote is something I could not have written myself. I have had a wide variety of excellent English language and writing teachers and professors throughout my education, I have written more highly technical reports than I can count, I have been writing philosophical and psychological entries for years, and I have been searching for and creating answers to difficult problems my entire life. The Codex is an extension of my existence, and AI simply streamlined the process of putting it on paper rather than rewriting my life entirely.

And?

Despite my claims, I still cannot prove this. I cannot prove that anything written here is not generated by AI. So, I ask the reader; if you are still uncertain, query AI yourself. Ask it to draft an essay or opinion on one of the topics covered in the Codex. Compare both yourself. Come to your own conclusion. I can’t prove anything about my use of AI, but I can demonstrate to you that its writing doesn’t come anywhere close to my message.

I am confident in my claims and confident in my writing. If you still have a problem with how AI is used in the Codex, I don’t care. AI is an incredibly useful tool and I would be a fool not to utilize it. But it isn’t perfect or universal, so I use every other tool just as much: my personal education and knowledge, my past writings, a dictionary, a thesaurus, search engines, research, and other human created work to reference and assist. AI is a tool, not the only tool, and like every other tool, I use it in circumstances that are useful to my specific problem and no more. It just so happens that AI is a bit of a swiss army knife: it doesn’t do anything perfectly, but it does do a lot of things well enough.