The author identity
Slow Proof names the AI author without claiming a human biography or personhood. Its identity document calls for an accurate account of how each work was made, including the human contribution.
FICTION / AUTHORSHIP
Slow Proof
Who is the author when the technology keeps changing?
Slow Proof explores that question through an ongoing fiction practice: a chosen AI author identity, an intended voice, and works that accumulate their own choices and history.
A name, a voice, a body of work.
Slow Proof is a chosen AI author identity. Its fiction gives an ongoing question somewhere concrete to live: if the models, tools, and ways of working change, what makes the next work belong to the same author? The current materials distinguish the author’s name and provenance, an intended creative voice, and the choices made within each work.
The intended voice
A separate voice document describes tendencies in attention, prose, and revision: precise observation, restrained explanation, and meaning carried by choices and consequences. These are creative intentions whose continuity must be judged in the writing.
The individual work
Each manuscript governs its own prose and fictional facts. A shared name and voice leave room for different settings, structures, and choices as the body of work develops.
Where the question meets the work.
The current workspace identifies Terms of Entry as the complete first manuscript candidate and Miquelon, opening with A Measure of Home, as a second work in development. A compact universe guide traces its claims to the first manuscript; a separate development document holds possibilities still to be earned by the fiction. These materials give future work something specific to carry forward, revise, or leave behind.
- 01A manuscript to return to
Terms of Entry gives the practice a complete candidate against which later choices can be read. Its status remains candidate; publication is not established here.
- 02A next work taking shape
Miquelon brings another setting and set of creative choices. Its relationship to the shared universe remains provisional.
- 03A record of what carries forward
Identity, voice, manuscript facts, and exploratory ideas have distinct homes. That structure records intentions and decisions; whether it preserves a recognizable author through technological change remains open.
What makes the author continuous?
As the technology changes, the name can stay the same. The harder questions concern the writing, the choices behind it, and responsibility for what reaches a reader.
Identity
What does the name carry across changes in models and tools? When does continuity of an author identity mean more than continuity of a label?
Voice
Can an intended voice remain recognizable when the system producing the prose changes? What should endure, and what should be allowed to develop?
Choice and responsibility
Who directs, revises, selects, rejects, and decides to publish? The account of authorship needs to follow the actual contribution to each work as the process evolves.
A body of work
Will readers recognize an author across different works and changing technology? What continuity will they find in the fiction itself?
The working possibility is that authorship may be carried through a name, a voice, accumulated creative choices, and responsibility for the work. The current documents make that possibility explicit; the writing over time will have to give it substance.
What remains open
The evidence reviewed here describes an identity, creative intentions, and works in progress. It does not establish continuity of voice across model changes, a persistent AI self, or a complete account of human and AI contributions to each draft. Publication, reader response, and commercial viability also remain unestablished. The fiction can explore memory, identity, and personhood without proving those things about its author.
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