The author reflects on the increasing prevalence of AI-generated content and the challenge it poses to proving human authorship. After a period of not writing blog posts, the author, who uses AI extensively in their work, decided to share their thoughts. They note that AI can automate tasks and assist in programming, but highlights a distinction in its use for creative writing versus code generation. While AI can produce technically "good" content, the process often differs from a human's, leading the author to prefer writing their own thoughts.

This distinction prompts the question: how can one prove a human wrote something? The author introduces a project called Semoi, a plugin for Obsidian. Semoi tracks the time taken to write a document and the number of keystrokes. This data is cryptographically signed and minted on a server, creating a verifiable proof that the text was not solely generated by an AI in seconds. The theory is that human typing involves minutes and thousands of individual keystrokes, unlike an AI's near-instantaneous output. While not foolproof, the author hopes Semoi or a similar idea will encourage more thoughtful approaches to authorship in the age of AI.