{"id":1770,"date":"2026-10-30T04:41:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photo.benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?page_id=1770"},"modified":"2026-10-30T04:41:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:41:36","slug":"genai-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/photo.benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/about\/genai-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"GenAI Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an photographer and creator, I am committed to not using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in any of my creative endeavors. I do not use GenAI for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Plotting, planning, world-building, brainstorming, or research<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Writing, revising, or editing my written words<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Modifying photographs I have taken with a DSLR<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cover art, interior art, or any other marketing materials for any of my creative works<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tools I will not use include, but are not limited to: ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, Claude, MidJourney, Nano Banana, and Stable Diffusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I learn that someone I am collaborating with uses GenAI, I will immediately cease to work with them, including submitting to anthologies that use GenAI for cover art (case in point, <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/author.benjamin-m-weilert.com\/published-works\/#EquusMonoceros\">Midnight Menagerie<\/a><\/strong><\/em> used MidJourney for their cover and I will not be submitting any short stories for future inclusion in their anthologies). This includes beta readers, editors, and artists, as I expect to get their human outputs when we enter a contract (either implied or written) to work together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will do my best to not purchase or support anything that uses GenAI. If it has obvious GenAI art on it, it is a clear indicator there was no effort applied in its creation and is not worth the time or money to consume this clear cash grab. If I receive something that was created with GenAI, it will be thrown in the trash. Businesses that use GenAI for their marketing will not receive my money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an photographer and creator, I am committed to not using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in any of my creative endeavors. I do not use GenAI for: The tools I will not use include, but are not limited to: ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, Claude, MidJourney, Nano Banana, and Stable Diffusion. If I learn that someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":30,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1770","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photo.benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photo.benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photo.benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo.benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo.benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/photo.benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1771,"href":"https:\/\/photo.benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1770\/revisions\/1771"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo.benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photo.benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}