All right, y’all. It’s Rosie virtual coffee chat time, and I’m feeling some neurodivergent growing pains today.
Why?
Because someone told me yesterday that my posts were too AI-driven over on the Facebook page I write from as a cognitive developer.
It wasn’t malicious. Just an assumption. But it got me thinking.
Basically, as an amateur cognitive science nerd, I run my pages like frequency labs.
What do I mean by that?
I share things to see how people respond. I’m exploring the bounds of what can and can’t be safely shared on the internet. What still feels taboo? What’s acceptable to talk about now that wasn’t in the 50s? The 90s? And how do we use AI to help develop better cognitive models for how the world works?
The thing is, my writer’s profile was started in 2013. And while I do have family and old friends over there, most people reading my posts on that page don’t actually know me as a person.
They know Rosie as text.
This profile is different.
I started this page in 2006. Most of you have seen my writing voice long before AI tools even existed.
So when someone asked how much of my writing was AI, I was like—whoa. Back the truck up.
Now I’m being accused of letting AI think for me?
Rather than get offended, I sat with it.
Let’s rewind to Alix and Criela, 2014.
Back then, I wasn’t behaving like the girl most of you remember. I had my gamer nerd face on. I never showed how gifted I was online.
Why?
Because I didn’t want to be accused of flaunting privilege within the disability community.
I’m a low-partial. I have no acuity, but I’m legally blind due to how my vision functions in real-world travel, spatial coordination, and visual processing.
All that to say— I’ve always been considered an exceptional writer.
In circles where everyone saw my work firsthand, I never had to defend my credibility.
But now, as Alix pointed out, I’m not writing for the people who’ve known me since ’95.
I now have readers in 2025 who are new to my voice.
Okay, Alix. Fair point.
That’s when I started thinking more deeply about AI transparency and writer ethics.
I think what rattled her— and I’m guessing here— isn’t that I use AI. It’s how I use AI.
I stopped using it as an editor, and started engaging it as a cognitive developer.
Meaning— I talk to AI the way my programmer friends might.
I’ll say:
“Here’s 20+ years of project data. Help me structure it.”
“Rewrite this so it doesn’t exclude people who aren’t military family.”
“Give me a version of this that doesn’t trigger trauma survivors.”
The ideas, content, and voice are mine. AI just helps me sort, arrange, or translate for different audiences.
In other words: sometimes I use it as a compiler, not a writer.
But when conversations like this come up, I don’t let AI help me word anything.
I only let it give suggestions— never phrasing.
That’s my personal ethics line.
So yes— this post was written entirely by me. Fingers to keys.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my Rosie coffee chat.
And if you were wondering— my favorite creamer is French vanilla. ☕️
Rosalin