** As it's being discoursed:
I do not use any generative AI (ChatGPT, Claude et.al.) at any stage in my writing process.
I write because I enjoy writing.
I enjoy the challenge of expressing an idea, or character, or setting in such short form and tell a story with them.
It's all human made.
**
** To be clear, nobody has accused me that I know of, and since I've been doing this since 2013 I have a corpus of around 4000 stories written before ChatGPT as proof I don't need it.
But I feel it's worth saying.
(The discourse is "AI cultists disappointed Sci-Fi authors have pride/ethics".)
**
@MicroSFF wtf. How can anybody think this. To me it's so clear. I doubt a lot of art and writing I see these days but not once did I suspect you're using AI to slop your writing
@MicroSFF No doubt about that. Go on, please.
Aug 1, 2026, 7:20 PM@MicroSFF yeah i think your stories are AI (Always Interesting)
Aug 1, 2026, 7:54 PM@MicroSFF thanks for clarifying that you do not use genAI in your stories!
I didn't think/suspect you did, but nowadays you can never be sure and it's always an unpleasant surprise I'd like to avoid :)
I'm looking forward to enjoy more of your human written micro fictions :rainbow_heart:
@MicroSFF
I read some of the discussion on that subreddit yesterday and - wow, most of these guys sound like they've been outsourcing their thinking to AI for quite some time now.
Aug 1, 2026, 9:04 PM@MicroSFF I was about to reply with "absolutely how dare they" but I'm glad to read it's not *that* stage of discourse.
@MicroSFF@mastodon.art
Aren't you afraid to be honest?
After all, sometimes that means being an unpleasant person.
@paul Not sure what that has to do with the use of generative AI.
But sometimes being dishonest also means being an unpleasant person.
I try to be honest and not unpleasant. Sometimes I fail, and then I try to make an honest apology, and an honest attempt at improving.
@MicroSFF
> I enjoy the challenge of expressing an idea, or character, or setting in such short form and tell a story with them.
You made me discover the joy of reading such short stories. I really couldn't imagine so much could be conveyed in that few words. I think the way you make your storytelling is genuinely beautiful and inspiring :dotowaha:
Aug 1, 2026, 7:23 PM@MicroSFF thank you for keeping it human
@MicroSFF
Never doubted this. It has spirit, something that AI slop will always lack of.
@MicroSFF That's good to know and thank you <3
@MicroSFF I literally never once considered that youight use AI. Probably because I am usually delighted and surprised by what you write, which are emotions I don't usually experience when reading AI text.
@MicroSFF
"AI" in your case is more suspect to be "Alien intelligence".
To introduce us humans to quick and easy alien Overlord takeover.
How many of your stories start with "The spaceship landed in the park and opened ..." etc.
I thought this was a curated feed of stories by different people, not just one dude/dudette. Much respect for putting these out so regularly!
I don't understand the mentality of people using LLMs to write fiction. The fun of writing IS writing.
If someone's not going to bother writing a story, why would anyone bother to read it?
@MicroSFF it's a sad state that we feel we have to pre-justify our writing just in case...
Rest easy - no AI is sophisticated enough to produce the sort of thing you come out with! 👍👍
And thank you for sharing your work with us. I’m so glad I stumbled across your account, years ago! 👏👏👏👏
No one who's read and enjoyed your stories could think otherwise. They have a delicious, quirky, human touch that no LLM can match.
Make artisanally crafted words, not slop.
@MicroSFF
Yeah, I kinda thought so, but thanks anyway for saying it. These days I crave human creativity more and more.
Aug 2, 2026, 12:15 AM@MicroSFF :blobcatheart:
@MicroSFF
Prediction : #HumanMade labels on the horizon …
@MicroSFF write on!