She Bought a Manuscript an AI Wrote
A new client arrived with 45,000 words she had bought from an AI service. She still hired a ghostwriter, because the tool never supplies the material. The story was in her. The manuscript was around it.
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Coverage of AI tools and their practical impact on writing, business, and technology. These articles examine what AI does well, where it falls short, and how professionals can use it effectively without surrendering the human judgment that makes work valuable.
Artificial IntelligenceThe AI Op-Ed Argument Is Aimed at the Wrong Question
Stanley Druckenmiller used AI to write a Wall Street Journal op-ed and admitted it. The argument that followed was about disclosure, and disclosure was never the question. Ghostwriting settled this a century ago: authorship lives in having the thought, not…
Artificial IntelligenceLinkedIn Built a Report Button That Pays the Person Clicking It
LinkedIn shipped a one-click AI slop flag with no definition, no training, no notification and no appeal. The structural flaw sits deeper than any of that. In a feed where attention is finite, suppressing a competitor makes room for you,…
Artificial IntelligencePublishing Is Cancelling Books Over AI. It Is Testing the Wrong Thing.
Publishing spent 2026 cancelling books over suspected AI use, on evidence that amounts to a detection score and a bad feeling about the prose. Detection tools measure polish, and polish is what a professional edit produces. Three questions would do…
Artificial IntelligenceThe Claude Watermark: What It Does and Why the Panic Is Wrong
Anthropic started watermarking Claude's text output on August 2, 2026, and almost every piece of coverage got the mechanism wrong. Nothing was added to your writing. What the mark does, what it proves, and why the SEO panic collapses on…
Artificial IntelligenceWhy One Book Beats a Hundred Blog Posts for AI Search
A hundred blog posts feel like more than one book. To an answer engine, it is the reverse. A book is one signal it can verify. A hundred posts are noise it cannot attribute.
Artificial IntelligenceHow AI Picks Who It Recommends
A third of my new business this year came because ChatGPT recommended me by name. The reason it picks some experts and ignores others is not luck. It is authority it can read.
Artificial IntelligenceThe Day Your Website Died: Optimizing for AI Search
The Day Your Website Died is the record of what happened when an AI engine started sending Richard Lowe paying clients before he had done anything deliberate
Artificial IntelligenceThe Death of Thinking: What Outsourcing Judgment Costs
What happens when you consistently outsource your thinking to AI? Documents that pattern, its causes, costs, and what gets lost before you notice.
Artificial IntelligenceThe Birth of the Augmented Human: What Goes Right When You Use AI Properly
The Death of Thinking mapped the problem. This book maps the other path, the practices that maintain cognitive capacity and what they build over time.
Artificial IntelligenceSay the Same Number Everywhere
An answer engine has to decide whether the you on your website and the you on your book jacket are the same person. It does that by looking for agreement, and every place your numbers, your title or your name…
Artificial IntelligenceWhy a Book Is the Strongest AEO Asset You Can Build
Answer engines have a problem. They have to decide who to name, and almost everything they can read about you was written by you. A book is the only thing you make that gets independently recorded by organizations with no…