TRANSPARENCY
How I use AI.
Real connection does not happen with AI. AI can help make it possible.
I use AI to bring this hour to you, without a model ever reading your private words.
At a glance
- What you write
- Never reaches a model.
- The voice
- Me. Everywhere, social media included. Never a clone.
- The writing
- Mine. AI is the copy editor.
- The music
- Composed in code. AI supplied raw material. Some pieces are by a human.
- Imagery
- Me in front of the camera. Editing with the help of AI. In the ebooks, mostly AI imagery.
- The site
- Built with AI as a tool. Every call is mine. Every pixel my idea.
The hour itself
This is not a product built from a prompt in a weekend.
I wish it had been that simple.
It took shape gradually, starting in 2016, long before AI was widely available.
I personally designed and built this hour and Vita Flow, the practical guide that follows it. But most of the work was not in what I added. It was in what I kept taking away.
Distilling both to their essence, without losing any of their impact, took most of those ten years.
AI came in over the last few years, as an editor, once the online hour already existed. It never got a vote.
It started as a live seminar, with real coffins. Then I rebuilt it, version after version.
Testing, failing, starting again. Full time since 2021. Gathering feedback that mattered and building on it.
Every now and then, a voice asks why on earth I am doing all this.
I have ignored that voice a hundred times. Otherwise there would be nothing to launch.
It cost me time. A lot of it. Vacations and trips I passed up. Free weekends and evenings became rare.
At a desk, building a product about conscious living.
I know that paradox from the inside. This hour grew out of it.
Where no model goes
No model reads what you keep private during this hour.
That includes your fifteen answers, your farewell letters, a message you keep to yourself, even a sentence you leave unfinished.
None of it is interpreted, summarized, judged, categorized or answered.
- Your first name and the names of the people you write to stay inside that same model-free boundary too.
Nothing you keep private goes to a model.
Text you explicitly submit for publication is separate. That text is reviewed only by me before it goes public.
You can read exactly how your words are processed on the Your Words page.
The voice is mine
Everything you hear me say during this hour was recorded by me, in both languages.
The same is true everywhere else, including social media. When you hear me, it is my own voice. I never use a voice clone.
During the hour, only prerecorded audio plays.
No AI listens in, responds to you or adapts the hour to what you write.
The music
Nine pieces carry the hour. Eight of them were composed in code, layer by layer, around a root note I chose.
AI supplied the raw material: five rough layers, including a voice, a bowed string, a pad and a low drone.
The ninth is a licensed piece by musician Quincas Moreira, created by a human long before this project existed.
In code, I can tune every layer precisely to the hour: the pitch, the breathing, the way it repeats.
Dozens of versions were discarded before one survived. I know what that says about me.
The rest of it
Writing
The ideas and sentences are mine. AI is my copy editor and, on larger pieces, my assistant director. I remain the director.
The thinking is mine. AI drafts a first version. Then I rewrite it in my own words. I hit send myself. Always.
Imagery
I am the one in front of the camera. No avatar has ever spoken on my behalf. I do use AI for the editing. Almost all imagery on this website is human-made. In the ebooks, I also use AI-generated imagery.
The site
Built and refined with AI, following my precise instructions. Behind every pixel is my own thinking and my final call. Nothing is accidental. I did drive the AI a little crazy with my obsession with detail ;)
Why AI remains a tool
For me, this hour is about connection.
First with yourself: feeling what is there, acknowledging it. Giving yourself what you actually need, underneath the noise.
Then with the people around you, from that place.
And then with what lies beyond you.
Technology carries that hour to the other side of the world at three in the morning, in your own language.
Its role goes no further.
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