Given the pace of change in our electronic world, I'd like to state for the record that I have never used "artificial intelligence" in the production of this blog, and I never will. Every article you read here is the output of my native human intelligence applied to researching a particular topic, or an account drawn from personal experience.

To me, this is not merely a matter of principle or credibility. This blog is all about discovering new facts about Covina history, and AI in its present state is not able to generate novel ideas. It may be able to tell you things that you never knew before, but it cannot create entirely new knowledge on its own. Not yet, anyway. So for my purposes here, AI doesn't have any practical usefulness.
Granted, my reliance on human intelligence also means mistakes will be made, but at least any errors of fact you might find here are not the result of "hallucinations" of the sort that is currently endemic to AI. (Which is to say, I never just "make shit up" like the LLMs sometimes do.) ;-)
All that said, I've been amused the couple of times that someone has quoted a chatbot to me on some aspect of Covina history, and I note that it's lifted virtually verbatim from my blog. So although I have few followers in the realm of organic life, it's at least nice to know the machines are reading my blog and learning things from it. :-)