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A local model can't make an idea original or create rights in it. It only changes who receives my unfinished work. It turned out to be four questions: what did I contribute, what rights exist, how do I make it distinctive, where does unfinished work go? scatteredonpurpose.substack.…
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A chat window is built for half-formed ideas. I describe a feature before I know if it belongs. I paste in a spec nobody else has seen. That's why the boring questions matter: where does that material go, who can process it, what happens after? Part 4 of a four-part series.
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Two shortcuts I don't trust. Asking a second model doesn't certify originality. It just widens the search. And asking a model to confirm its own suggestion has never existed isn't a test at all.
Paper-cut illustration of a person at a laptop showing a generic weather app, leaning in hopefully. Thought bubble: 'Has anyone built this before?' A bubble from the laptop answers: 'Nope! Totally original.'

ALT Paper-cut illustration of a person at a laptop showing a generic weather app, leaning in hopefully. Thought bubble: 'Has anyone built this before?' A bubble from the laptop answers: 'Nope! Totally original.'

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The model knows a lot about readers in general. It doesn't know mine.
Handwritten quote on a taped index card: 'An imaginary reader's enthusiasm is not evidence that a real one wants the product.' Signed @ScatteredOP.

ALT Handwritten quote on a taped index card: 'An imaginary reader's enthusiasm is not evidence that a real one wants the product.' Signed @ScatteredOP.

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In a 2024 study, short stories written with access to AI ideas were rated as more novel and more useful. They also came out more alike. So I want to ask two questions about any suggestion. Is this better? And is this more like everything else? scatteredonpurpose.substack.…
Bar chart of rating increases versus writers with no AI ideas: novelty up 5.4% with one AI idea and 8.1% with up to five; usefulness up 3.7% with one and 9.0% with up to five. Note: the stories also became more similar to each other.

ALT Bar chart of rating increases versus writers with no AI ideas: novelty up 5.4% with one AI idea and 8.1% with up to five; usefulness up 3.7% with one and 9.0% with up to five. Note: the stories also became more similar to each other.

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Ask a model for ten variations, and you often get one idea in ten outfits. New names. New colors. And the user still does exactly the same thing. What I want instead: alternatives that actually work differently.
Two panels under the title 'Is it really a different idea?' The left panel, 'Looks different', shows a row of differently colored boxes: new names, new colors, and the user still does the same thing. The right panel, 'Works differently', shows a box and a circle: a different workflow and a different reason to open it.

ALT Two panels under the title 'Is it really a different idea?' The left panel, 'Looks different', shows a row of differently colored boxes: new names, new colors, and the user still does the same thing. The right panel, 'Works differently', shows a box and a circle: a different workflow and a different reason to open it.

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These are habits I want to build in. The first: write a concept note before opening the chat. Who is it for? What do they struggle with? What do I think should change? What am I unsure about? Which answers did I see, and which am I assuming? It needs to exist, not be right.
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When I type "help me design a book app" into a chat, I've handed over almost every decision before it starts. Audience, problem, features, feel. The model will do that well. That's the risk. I end up polishing a direction I never chose. Part 3 of a four-part series.
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Before I open a chat with a model, I want a short note written first. Who is this for? What do they struggle with? Which answers did I actually see, and which am I assuming? It gives me a fixed point to measure every suggestion against. scatteredonpurpose.substack.…
Banner: the line 'The note doesn't need to be right. It needs to exist.' beside a paper-cut illustration of hands binding plain cream cloth with string before it is dyed.

ALT Banner: the line 'The note doesn't need to be right. It needs to exist.' beside a paper-cut illustration of hands binding plain cream cloth with string before it is dyed.

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None of this stops someone else from landing in the same place on their own. I could never prevent that. What the habits give me is better reasons. A model offers more possibilities than I can produce alone. I still need a reason to choose. scatteredonpurpose.substack.…
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Here's what I heard. One: I'm allowed to use what the model gives me. Two: The company won't come back and claim my product. Three: it's original, it's mine alone, and I could stop someone who builds something similar. The sentence only makes the first two.
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OpenAI and Anthropic both say roughly the same thing about what you build with their models: you own the output. It sounds wonderful. But I hear three promises in that sentence, and it only makes two. Part 2 of a four-part series on AI, originality and ownership.
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What can be protected is the human part: your own expression still perceptible in the output, or creative arrangements and modifications you made. Not the number of prompts. Not the hours. Effort matters to me. The law asks what human expression is actually there.
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"My IP" is several things. A name is a trademark question. A confidential process can be a trade secret, only while it stays secret. Art and code are copyright questions, judged piece by piece. There's no single shield called "my app idea." scatteredonpurpose.substack.…
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This is a new ‘tool’ and with every new breakthrough comes the obsolescence of the replaced.
Scattered on Purpose (@ScatteredOP) profile pictureScattered on Purpose@ScatteredOPOct 19
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So the useful question isn't whether an idea is all mine or all collective. It's what I contribute that gives the product its direction: the audience I chose, the suggestions I threw out, the decisions I can explain. scatteredonpurpose.substack.…
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Or another way of phrasing this: is my data being used to train these LLM models.
Scattered on Purpose (@ScatteredOP) profile pictureScattered on Purpose@ScatteredOPOct 19
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So every answer comes from something much larger than my one conversation. The real question: am I developing an original direction, or accepting a familiar combination that just feels new to me?
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So every answer comes from something much larger than my one conversation. The real question: am I developing an original direction, or accepting a familiar combination that just feels new to me?
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And copyright protects expression, not ideas. A spec I write can be protected. A rearrangeable bookshelf with a candle on it can't. The U.S. Copyright Office says prompting alone doesn't make you the author of what comes out.
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Then I read the fine print. OpenAI's terms say I own the output. The same terms warn that it may not be unique, and other users may get similar output. I own my copy. That doesn't make it the only copy.
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A 2024 study in Science Advances: writers given AI story ideas produced stories rated as more creative and better written. Those stories were also more similar to each other. A tool that makes each of us better can nudge all of us toward the same place.
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