How these are written

A machine drafts the words. The living is mine.

I use AI to help write this. I'd rather you knew.

Everything else is mine: the vision, the judgment about what's true, which lines stay. A director doesn't run the camera, and the film is still theirs. Ghostwriting is older than I am. I'd bet good money the orange guy didn't type a word of his own book about how to do business.

What a machine can't do is live. The frightened dog, the nine years, what changed in me: that's mine, and it's the part that matters. AI can help me say it. It can't testify to it.

A book about honesty that hid how it was made would already be lying.