This text was translated by AI. Original French source: Fench Article.

Artificial Intelligence

After brushing up against what artificial intelligence could bring me, I came to the conclusion that I had to establish clear rules of use in order to stay aligned with my values. Although I've always appreciated and been curious about new technologies, I have to say this is truly the first time I've had to take a more drastic stance on the use of one of them. Many people consider AI a tool. I don't believe that's the case. Why? Because a tool is there to help you in creating or accomplishing a project. AI produces final results where your talent, your skill or your knowledge were in no way called upon. Just a prompt, a directive, and there you go — Aunt Ginette can afford to create cinematic-quality images or videos without having any minimal knowledge of everything it would take an expert to model in 3D, texture, light a scene, animate, edit the video, create a soundtrack, etc.

And what about the speed at which these AI creations are generated. Enough to demotivate any expert in their field. It's as if all our efforts of learning, of mastering software, of gaining speed of execution, were being ridiculed and devalued by AI. I think AI should never have been made available to the general public. Its use should be regulated to avoid all these excesses and all the mediocrity humans are capable of. Falsehood, fraud, intimidation and dishonesty. And despite the temptation to want to save time, and shortcut steps to reach success faster, I decided instead to write ethical rules on how I will use AI professionally and personally;

1 - ARTISTIC CREATIONS

I will not use AI in any way to generate images, videos or music. No artistic creation made by AI can be called art, in my opinion. Although art itself has often been questioned in various abstract and minimalist works, my perception of art remains that an effort of creation, the use of a talent, must be present in a work.

2 - CONTENT CREATION

Guilty. I asked AI to produce texts for my website and in emails during my period of discovering AI. But now, I quite agree with an "Instagrammer" who mentioned that sending an AI-generated email is deeply disrespectful. How can you expect someone to fully read a heavily formatted text when you didn't even have the decency to write it yourself. So, in the coming weeks, I will correct the articles on my website that contain AI content.

3 - TRANSLATION

I am a Quebecer (French Canadian). The question of language has always been a strong matter of identity for me. Here is a situation where I believe AI can be a tool. From now on, I will write all my texts myself and use the basic spell-checkers included in software. I have always placed great importance on my spelling and on the way I express myself. I also believe that letting a few mistakes slip through by inadvertence or ignorance throughout my text will make a certain humanity emanate from my writing. However, in order to make my professional texts available to a wider audience, I will allow myself to ask AI for help translating my French texts word for word, adding at the beginning of each text a mention that it was translated by AI and citing the French source. Not that I don't master the language of Shakespeare, but for the sake of saving time.

4 - VIBE CODING

I still have a decent base in programming, having managed to create specific projects I wanted to bring to life. I believe this is, for me, the most powerful facet of AI I've been able to observe during my months of discovery. Its ability to quickly develop systems/platforms based on nothing but text directives. I've been able to create about twenty useful, operational platforms for professional use. However, deep inside, I know I don't yet have all the knowledge and ability to be able to reproduce those same platforms by myself. Which results in a strong feeling of impostor syndrome. So here are my rules regarding the use of AI for vibe coding. I allow its use to develop my own tools, used by myself, to improve my performance in the CAD field. None of these tools can be commercialized if I am not able to understand the entirety of its structure and to maintain adequate support to keep the application functional without AI's help.

5 - LEARNING

My Claude subscription must be used primarily to learn. To get information, synthesize it and integrate it into my day-to-day professional activities. I believe this is the use of AI that amounts to being the most ethical. Never in my entire professional life have I taken credit for a work I did not carry out myself. And I don't understand the humans who allow themselves such an action. Integrity is a very important value to me. AI feeds on all the information humanity has decided to share in common on what we've called the internet. Of course one can draw inspiration, be influenced by the work, the art of others, but I believe that to claim a creation as your own, you must have put in the effort, the skills and the knowledge.

As of September 7, 2026, I commit to using AI according to the rules listed above, and to putting my heart and all my humanity into each of my creations.