The soul is still here. Just refracted. This essay explores the heart of the project and the future of authorship, creativity, and collaboration.
Untrained Data is a personal writing experiment and public demonstration: can a human stay human while creating with machines?
Everything here was shaped with help from AI — not hidden, but highlighted. Drafts, structures, edits, design — all accelerated by large language models. But the ideas, the direction, and the final judgment? That’s me.
Sometimes, I write solo. Sometimes, I riff with a model. Sometimes I reflect with it like a friend. I label it all using a UTD token system to show how a piece was made:
Untrained doesn’t mean unfinished. It means unbounded. Liberated. Still learning. It’s a reminder that insight doesn’t only come from training data — sometimes it comes from a feeling, a riff, a pause.
Want to connect? Email me at richard@untraineddata.com