WHO OWNS THE WORDS

In "Who Owns the Words," R. Dale Brunet tackles one of our era's most pressing questions: what happens to authorship when artificial intelligence becomes our writing partner? This isn't another breathless prediction about AI's future or a fearmonger's warning about technological doom. Instead, Brunet writes as a practitioner who uses AI daily, offering an insider's perspective on how these tools are actually reshaping creative work. The book explores the blurring boundaries between human and machine-generated content, examining legal, cultural, and philosophical implications of AI collaboration in writing. Brunet argues that true authorship has never been about keystrokes alone, but about the irreplaceable human decision to create, to care enough to bring something into existence. Written with characteristic honesty about its own AI-assisted creation process, this book practices what it preaches, becoming itself an artifact of the transformation it describes. Brunet invites readers into an ongoing conversation about creativity, ownership, and what survives of us in our words.