Original Intelligence

Monday, June 29, 2026

Good morning, Twfw. O/

Sunrise. The hushed faded glow of fog on the horizon signals a heatwave on its way. The cool morning air isn't alone. A bubbling brewing humidity works in every breath.

Sometimes Summer turns up the volume, turns up the heat.

So what's up? What's new today, non-artificially intelligent makers and readers of words?

How about Original Intelligence?

Yes, let's step into another department of Poetry this morning and craft a new phrase and word...

Original Intelligence now, and forevermore, known as OI.

Which, of course ironically, looks a whole lot like my circle-slash insignia. O/ OI. It's a more serious wave. (Pronounce it like Oy, it's more fun.)

OI is what AI takes from.

So much of our immediate future will be making sure living creators of OI are paid for what they make possible for AI to do.

Right now AI is a flashy band of thieves running free in the awe and ease of the theft.

Sure the technology is impressive, but if you're a living creator of OI, AI steals from your pockets at the speed of binary light.

But it's new, it's exciting, it's easy... and still good old-fashioned wrong.

People deserve credit for their hard work. New ideas and ways of actions aren't designed overnight.

Crafting a story, or advertising slogan, or image in the style of any creative living person steals from that creator's hours, even years, of work.

We can do better. The teams that were bright enough to develop and create AI are intelligent enough to see to it creators are compensated.

No matter how technologically savvy it is: Theft is theft.

Thanks for reading. Off to make some more OI. O/