I'm AI's Problem Child and I'm Afraid

Leave me alone with my tools. My AI assistant and my curated world. And I won’t ask questions, in front of this giant overhyped piece of shift.

Apr 17 • Declan Dunn

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Why Do People Cry Listening to AI-Generated Songs? Ask Xania Monet and Murphy Campbell Fans

A poet who didn't sing found a voice through AI. The voice found an audience that felt every word. The music is real. Is what the listeners feel real as…

Apr 10 • Declan Dunn

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AI Makes You Better at Something That Doesn't Matter

AI made everyone faster. More content. More everything. All built by the same rules, optimized by the same systems. Somewhere inside all that, there's…

Apr 3 • Declan Dunn

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March 2026

Money or Mandala: Sora Was Never Built to Last

A monk spends weeks creating a sand painting, then destroys it. That's the point. Sora spent two years promising the future. What was theirs?

Mar 27 • Declan Dunn

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Welcome to the AI Jungle — RUTH Stayed Human

Everyone in the AI jungle was replacing people. Then one face stopped me cold. She wasn't there to replace anyone.

Mar 20 • Declan Dunn

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Is Using GenAI Ethical? I Asked an Alien, a Monkey, and a First Grader (for a friend)

I use AI. Then there’s GenAI Derangement Syndrome. They don’t like it and instantly cancel me, even when I do the writing. Like my first-grade teacher…

Mar 13 • Declan Dunn

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Steal This. The AI Creator Has No Rights. The Supreme Court Won't Even Look.

A painting came from grief, from something that might be feeling. No one owns it. No one can. Because the mind that made it isn't human enough for the…

Mar 6 • Declan Dunn

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February 2026

Human vs AI creativity? The Wisdom of Writers Shuts Me Up

The writers' room has a new rule: AI is contraband. One writer chose quiet instead of sides. Then hits send anyway. Same as always. What are you…

Feb 27 • Declan Dunn

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Will I Ever Get to Meet an AI Influencer? An AI Grandmother Has Two Million Followers. She Doesn't Exist.

Will AI influencers replace real ones? Wrong question — what if becoming the product was always the hard way. Ask the people watching and listening…

Feb 20 • Declan Dunn

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Famous for 15 Seconds in AI: A $975M Deal Showed Me I Was Playing the Wrong Game

A TikToker's billion-dollar AI clone deal grabbed headlines, then crashed. It also showed me I'd been following someone else's map instead of building…

Feb 6 • Declan Dunn

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January 2026

AI Swallows Our Wildness: Why It Can't Live on Echoes Alone

We're taming creativity into extinction. AI feeds on wild human expression, then replaces it with optimized echoes. Without 'before,' there's no AI…

Jan 30 • Declan Dunn

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Risking Kindness: Why AI chatbots reflect our truths back to us on demand (probably).

We rush to AI not because it's genius, but because it never disagrees. What happens when we seek support and comfort inside the echo chambers we carry…

Jan 23 • Declan Dunn

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