AI policy
The rise and rise of beekeeping websites filled with AI 'slop' prompted me to explain the use of AI on this website.
I do not use AI to draft outline articles or write the text that appears on The Apiarist.
Everything you read has been thought up, organised, written, edited and proofread by a human (me).
My use of em dashes — like that one — is because they are (or were, fashion changes) a correct form of punctuation, not because ChatGPT was used to produce the text. I might not always use them correctly, but that's further evidence the text was produced by a human, not a datacentre. Astute readers will also find I use en dashes and ellipses … all lovingly typed out in my text editor before uploading 😄.
There is a single exception to the statement in bold above, and that is the page entitled ChatGPT on beekeeping, where the use of AI is explicitly stated.
David (The Apiarist)
If further AI-generated text is included, for example to illustrate what a poor job it does of describing certain aspects of honey bee management, the text will include a statement indicating how it was prepared.
However, I do use AI for the following tasks associated with producing the weekly posts that appear on The Apiarist:
- Writing code for data analysis, including site maintenance, weather/climate data, or results published in scientific publications (for example, collating results from different papers, using alternate units of measurement, and normalising them for comparison).
- Production of graphs, including via automation of Microsoft Excel.
I also sometimes use AI for voice to text transcription when drafting or writing posts … it can be faster to dictate a sentence than write it, and I then edit it manually. In this instance, AI is used for efficient transcription (which it is very good at), but the words are all mine.