It has been a while since I’ve written a blog post, but there’s a lot that needs to be addressed. Again.
I want to start with AI.
I’ve talked before about how I use AI and why I use it, but I need to clearly restate my boundaries. As much as I criticize AI, it is obvious that I still use it in specific parts of my workflow. That does not make my position contradictory. It makes it defined.
So let me be as clear as possible.
I do not use AI to write music.
I do not use AI to generate melodies.
I do not use AI to write drum patterns.
I do not use AI to create finished compositions.
The furthest I have ever gone with AI in music production is asking it to list chord progressions. Even then, those are things I can and increasingly do figure out myself as I continue improving as a producer.
Not a single track I have released has ever been produced using AI.
I have never used, and will never use, tools like Suno or anything similar.
Those platforms strip the soul out of music.
Where my usage has changed the most is visual art. In the past, I experimented with AI-generated imagery for cover art and promotional graphics. I will openly admit that. Going forward, that is done.
Music, painting, photography, illustration, image creation of any kind. I am finished using AI for those purposes. AI has been built on the wholesale theft of creative work, identities, and styles, and I want no part in contributing to that any longer.
That boundary is permanent.
Now, here is where people love to yell “gotcha,” so let’s address it directly.
Yes, I still use AI.
There is no art in ad copy.
None.
Writing ad copy is some of the most soulless work that exists. I know this because I have done it for over fifteen years. Ad copy is taking the same idea and rewording it repeatedly to influence behavior. That is exactly what AI does well.
Ad copy is not art, despite what marketers will tell you. It is manipulation. It is applied psychology. It is scientific method experimentation designed to influence decision making. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to themselves to make their job feel more meaningful.
So yes, I will absolutely let AI handle ad copy.
I would much rather spend my mental energy making real music, creating real art, and engaging with real people than burning myself out writing manipulative text designed to sell something. That work can stay with the machines.
That is not selling out. That is using the tool where it belongs.
I will also continue using AI as an editor.
Writers have editors. Musicians have mastering engineers. Filmmakers have colorists. I do not have the budget to hire professional editors for blog posts that do not earn me a single dollar.
AI was made to handle technical cleanup. Grammar. Punctuation. Structure. Clarity.
That is exactly how I use it.
These are still my words.
These are still my thoughts.
Every idea comes from me.
AI simply helps make the writing readable and coherent so the message is not lost behind typos and mechanical errors.
I am not interested in becoming an English major. I am not interested in manually editing thousands of words when a tool exists to do that labor for me. That does not make the work less authentic. It makes it possible.
So here is my line in the sand.
I will use AI to edit my writing.
I will use AI to write ad copy.
I will not use AI to create music.
I will not use AI to create art.
I will not sign AI-generated music to my label. Ever.
That is cheating. It is hollow. It is lifeless.
If you use AI to clean up an email pitching your track to me, I do not care.
If you submit AI-generated music, you will not be considered.
That is my stance.
It is not negotiable.