Behind the Scenes; AI Usage and Integrity

🧩 A transparent look at how AI collaborates with human creativity

Statement of Authorship

• All ideas are mine.

• All lived experiences are mine.

• AI is a tool I use to support my thinking creative process, not generate ideas, thoughts, experiences etc.

My voice, insight, experience, creativity and deep connection with the divine lead the process.

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AI Support Overview

Here is a step by step description of how I use AI for writing. My view of AI is that it is an advanced word processing tool, faster and more versatile than word processing.

Step 1: Idea Collection

Ideas emerge from my morning meditation or intuitive reflection.

• I gather all ideas and I use AI to retrieve and sort through my own past writings to find relevant material, forgotten fragments in relationship with my ideas.
  (Example: can you recall that experience in the Sahara in 1983 in the chapter “20 years of chaos”? AI would retrieve information already written by me)

• For this I had to upload in AI all my previous writings. While this raises privacy considerations, I'm comfortable with this risk as it's my own material.

• I currently use tools like ChatGPT and Claude for this process

Step 2: Idea Organization

• My ideas come in a flood and are usually not linear. Within an insight there may be seeds for future articles that do not belong to the one at hand, digressions, parallel ideas…

• I use AI to help structure the flow of ideas into a more coherent outline. I often reorganize the structure, since if AI is faithful with my text, often miss the subtle points of my argument. That is a key moment. I keep control of the development.

• After this, I personally review and enrich it with new insights. This process spare me the “logistic” of the text and provide a rich stage for brainstorming further on my own.

AI act as a mirror for my thoughts and creative process.

Step 3: First Draft

• Once satisfied with the structure, I ask AI to generate a first draft based on my compiled and organized ideas.

• This draft is always a starting point, not a finished product.

Step 4: Personal Revision

• I create Draft 2 through deep personal revision. This is the longest phase, it can take days (when it takes AI second to answer, I work much more slowly than that!)

• At this point, I may ask AI for feedback or questions, but I do not let it modify the text anymore.

• The voice remains fully mine. When AI suggests words, expressions, or metaphors that are not in my regular vocabulary or writing style, I remove them and replace with language I am familiar with.

• English is not my native tongue, AI helps me correct the orthography, the grammar, the format or sentences or some words that may come come from original "French”.

Step 5: Research & Critical Thinking Support

• During later drafts, I use AI to:

  • Find factual information (e.g., names, references, quotes) that I may have forgotten since the experiences I quote often happened decades ago. (For example, I might ask about details of my work in Mozambique in 1990 when I couldn't remember the name of the president and when he had been elected).

  • Challenge my views by asking for counterpoints or potential critiques.

• These insights help me strengthen my arguments and deepen my clarity. Once again, AI is used as a mirror for my thinking process, not to replace it.

• I have used AI to generate images for my post when I don’t have a personal picture to share. I have grown quite uncomfortable doing this as AI-generated images quickly lose their appeal and often lack authentic artistic identity. I'm currently exploring alternatives for visual content.

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Ethical Commitments

• Ethic, authenticity, vulnerability are at the core of my work, I apply it to my use of AI too.

I do not use AI to generate ideas, new posts or reframe / paraphrase the work of others to suit a personal agenda (and certainly not for profit 😂).

• AI is indeed changing the world very rapidly. Some aspects are amazing and other quite troubling. I am not fighting what is, I am moving with it, trying my best to weigh-in where it matters

• I retain full ownership and authorship over all content. My process is led by intuition and lived truth, not AI logic.

• This document will evolve as my work grows and my relationship with AI develops. If you find blind spot in my disclosure, I would appreciate feedback. It is a complex issue and I do not pretend I have it all figured out.

Infinite Love