In this first episode of HumanPrint, Christine Whitmarsh introduces the idea of drift: the subtle way generative AI can pull your writing, voice, and point of view away from your own human signal before you realize it’s happening.

This episode, HumanPrint itself, comes from a more useful place than the tired, black and white, pro-AI versus anti-AI debate. Our focus here is how to use the tool without letting speed, polish, and convenience genericize the parts of your voice that make your work recognizably yours.

This week’s HumanPrint check: before you publish, ask what sounds specifically like you, and what could have come from almost anyone.