WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Missoula Montana

August 3, 2026

Hank Green, Artificial Intelligence, & Missoula Montana

Was Hank’s mistake using AI at all? Or was it his totally-in-character honest personal disclosure about it? Does either earn the sort of hot-tempered attacks he is enduring? I say no. Continue reading

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Current Affairs, Unpopular Opinions

artificial-intelligence, Hank Green, Missoula Montana
October 1, 2006

Higgins Avenue, Missoula, Montana

I’ve been out & about. Every day, for three days. I’m exhausted. All you get is a photo. Continue reading

Photos 2006

Missoula Montana, photo, photograph

Ancestral (Artificial )Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is how I think, and I prefer to do it myself. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

I have changed this from Artificial to Ancestral, after Abi Awomosu @ Substack. This medium was made with human history, human thought. All of it, bright and dark. It is ancestral.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

Missoula Montana

Hank Green, Artificial Intelligence, & Missoula Montana

Higgins Avenue, Missoula, Montana