{"id":2298,"date":"2026-08-13T14:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericahayes.net\/wpsite\/?page_id=2298"},"modified":"2026-08-13T14:11:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:11:47","slug":"ai-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ericahayes.net\/wpsite\/ai-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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I am a real human. My name is Erica. The picture in the bio is of me. I write under various pen names, as listed on this site from time to time.<\/span><\/p>

I and all my pen names use MS Word (including the inbuilt spelling checker) and my actual human brain to write my books. I do not use generative AI to write text, to plot my books, or for editing. I know the em dash shortcut and I intend to use it! And if there’s a mistake in my book, it’s a mistake. I didn’t put it there to prove I am not an AI.<\/span><\/p>

I sometimes use LLMs to research factual information relevant to my stories, and book marketing information. Meaning, I search the Internet for things, like everyone else. I don’t hate AI. I just refuse to make so-called “art” with it.<\/span><\/p>

I made this website using royalty-free stock images and <\/span>purchased\u00a0or free fonts, with no added generative AI elements. It <\/span>probably\u00a0looks like it. I’m good with that.<\/span><\/span><\/p>

All<\/span>\u00a0my book cover art is either: 1) commissioned by <\/span>traditional\u00a0publishers pre-AI (yes, I’m that old!); 2) made by me with stock images and old-school Adobe Photoshop; 3) created by human artists to whom I have paid actual money. To the best of my knowledge and belief, my covers contain no\u00a0AI-generated images.<\/span><\/span><\/p>

Any ebooks created by me are formatted in Vellum (the ebook <\/span>software<\/span>, not the AI platform).<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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ERICA HAYES books that bite back Generative AI Policy I am a real human. My name is Erica. The picture in the bio is of me. I write under various pen names, as listed on this site from time to time. I and all my pen names use MS Word (including the inbuilt spelling checker)… Read More »AI Policy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-pagebuilder-full-width.php","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2298","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericahayes.net\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericahayes.net\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericahayes.net\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericahayes.net\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericahayes.net\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ericahayes.net\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2311,"href":"https:\/\/ericahayes.net\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2298\/revisions\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericahayes.net\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}