AI Disclosure

I write webnovels, and I write a lot of them. Several series at once. When someone posts that many chapters, a question shows up in the comments sooner or later: “Is this AI?”

Honestly, it is a fair question. You are trusting me with your time, and if a machine were writing these chapters, you would deserve to know. It also stings, because the real answer is a lot of hours at a keyboard and a Sunday ritual of hunting down my own plot holes.

But being annoyed (*cough cough* pissed... sorry) helps nobody. People want to know, and the only way to know without asking is for me to tell you. So here it is, all of it.

No AI writes my stories.

Every chapter, every character and every terrible decision my protagonists make comes from me. I do use AI as a tool along the way, though, and I think you deserve to know how, where and why.

The short version: it helps me research, proofread, keep track of my own plot, and draw the pictures I can't. Here is the long version.

Research

I write about worlds that run on things I never studied. AI is my very patient, slightly overconfident librarian: I ask how something worked in the past or in real life, it gives me a starting point, and I go check whether it made anything up. It sometimes does. With total confidence.

Some real examples from the books:

  • The Crime Lord Bard: how the arms trade worked around 1400. Who was allowed to forge weapons, how guilds guarded that right, and how smugglers got around tariffs. Jamie is a professional; he deserves a historically plausible black market.
  • Ten Lives To Destroy My Empire: how fast a nineteenth-century empire could actually lay railway track, what the telegraph changed about ruling a huge country, and why factories need far more than a good idea and an angry prince.
  • Goblinomics: how medieval mines were run and how early banking and credit worked, because a goblin whose strength depends on his net worth needs his accounting to hold up.
  • Time Cursed Knight: how a longsword really fares against plate armor, so the fights hurt in the right places.
  • I'll Be the Red Ranger: how squads, platoons and battalions fit together, so the New Earth Army has a chain of command and not a vibe.

Think of it as a search engine that talks back. Useful, but nobody gets to cite it without a second source.

Grammar Review

Every chapter goes through an AI pass to catch problems: typos, missing words, a sentence that started in the past tense and somehow ended in the future. It points; I fix. English is not my first language, and I would rather an AI catch "believe" spelled three creative ways before you do.

Continuity Review

Every Sunday I run a continuity check across the series to find out whether I messed something up. Did a character lose an arm in chapter 40 and clap in chapter 52? Did a city move? Did a sword change names? These are long stories with a lot of moving pieces, and my memory is human, sadly.

The AI flags suspects. I investigate, decide what is actually broken, and fix it myself. Some flags are real crimes. Many are false accusations. It is a very enthusiastic detective.

Header Images

All the images in the chapter headers are AI-generated, made with GPT. I am a writer, not an illustrator, and the alternative was a stick figure holding a sword. You are welcome.

Covers

For covers, artists come first. The rule is simple: when a series starts making some money, it gets a cover painted by a real person. I also need to eat, so the timing matters.

I'll Be the Red Ranger and Time Cursed Knight have already graduated: both covers were made by human artists. The newer series wear AI covers until they earn their upgrade. Want your favorite series to get one? Reading and supporting it is how that happens.

Why Disclose?

Unfortunately, people have become obsessed with whether something was made by a human or by AI, sometimes more than with whether it is any good. I would rather tell you exactly what I do than have you play detective in the comments.

I understand that AI creates real problems, and I take them seriously. I also believe every technology can be used for good. So I use it with my own moral compass, trying to do what is best for the people reading these books.

If any of this changes, this page changes with it.

G.C Lopes