The Safe Spot — Episode 14: The AI Debate

The messy line between AI-assisted and AI-generated

AI can turn an ordinary conversation into a minefield remarkably quickly—and EVE Online is no exception. Rixx and I wade into the debate from our sometimes differing perspectives, beginning with “AI slop” and the increasingly blurry line between AI-generated content and work that remains human-led but AI-assisted.

We discuss how we each use (or deliberately avoid) these tools in our creative and professional lives. Taste, experience, judgment, fact-checking and accountability don’t magically appear with a good prompt, but does every use of AI deserve to be thrown into the same bucket?

AI didn't make me creative, but it did change "how" I create

 

I've been writing on CrazyKinux's Musings in one form or another since 2005. Long before ChatGPT, Claude, image generators, or any of the current AI tools existed, I was writing about EVE Online, about the community of players & bloggers, sharing things I had learned, interviewing people and generally following whatever rabbit hole happened to interest me.

So AI didn't suddenly make me creative, but it's definitely changed how I create.

In Jita, debts come due — an EVE Online short story

The message arrived while Caelin “Crazy Kinux” Kinotsuki was only a dozen or so jumps from Jita.

He almost ignored it.

There was nothing unusual about receiving messages in space, but this one was different. No corporate header. No security tag. No context. Just a name he had not seen in a very long time.

Cassian Drake.

The text beneath it was short.

Jita 4-4. 2200. 

The Glass House. Come alone. 

I need the favour back.

He stared at it for several seconds, then checked the routing data attached to the message.

Drake was not the kind of man who crossed dozens of systems for a casual conversation. If he was willing to travel that far just to ask for a favour in person, whatever had happened was serious.

Reluctantly, he set course for Jita.