How Much of My Content Is Written by AI? How I Actually Use AI for Content Creation
AI can speed up my workflow, fix my English, translate a post, generate an illustration, or help me turn an idea into something usable. What it can’t provide is my experience, creative intent, or judgment. AI assists with the process; I remain the author.
I’m writing this on my laptop on a train. Fingers on the keyboard. No dictation, no ChatGPT hiding under the seat generating another 500 words for me.
This isn’t some kind of moral achievement. It’s just a practical answer to a question I’ve been getting more and more often lately:
“So how much of this does AI actually write?”
Short version: enough to save me time. Not enough to take the credit.
It doesn’t know why this particular paragraph is annoying me, why I’m ridiculously excited about one tiny feature in Canva, or why I still haven’t published a few Reels I made with HeyGen. That part is still on me.
As of August 2, 2026, another part of the AI Act became generally applicable across the EU. Meanwhile, Substack added the option to see an estimate of how much human-written versus AI-assisted text appears in newer posts, using Pangram. Neither of those things means that every blogger who asks AI to fix their English suddenly needs to hang up a giant BEWARE: ROBOT sign.
But they did give me a reason to explain how I use AI myself.
Blog: Idea First, Language Help Second
Glitches & Glory started as an English-language blog. I wanted to practice my English through writing, and even back then, AI mainly helped me make sure my posts didn’t sound like they’d been written by a seventh-grader armed with an advanced English textbook.
It only took a few months for my ADHD brain to realize that what a blog read by, on a good month, a handful of people really needed was more work. So naturally, I added a Czech version.
Most of my posts are still written in English first. Then Chatty steps in as my language debugger: it finds the sentence that technically speaks English but apparently learned it from a microwave manual. It suggests a more natural phrasing, an SEO-friendly title, topics, or a meta description. What it can’t do is decide what’s actually worth saying.
Translating from English into Czech is easier for me than going the other way. My buddy Chatty helps with that too, but I’d like to think I’m slightly more competent in my native language. So I rewrite a significant chunk of the translated text until it sounds like something I might actually say or write.
Newsletters: Because One Content Channel Was Clearly Not Enough
I started writing Czech-language newsletters in spring 2026 after attending one of the online summits on Skool. For now, my newsletters are only available in Czech. Pretty much every speaker said the same thing: your email list is the one part of your audience that can’t be taken away by an algorithm, a platform outage, or Elon Musk waking up one morning with a new idea.
That made sense. My brain naturally reached the only logical conclusion: I need several newsletters a week.
Without AI, that would leave me with two options: produce content much more slowly or speedrun my way to burnout. So my ADHD newsletters are built from my own notes and source syntheses I prepare in Gemini Notebook. For my Friday Five newsletters, I use Chatty or Gemini for brainstorming. My Sunday Neurodivergent Drops, on the other hand, are written almost entirely by hand because they also function as a kind of diary.
At the beginning of my newsletter era, I created a Gemini Gem based on video transcripts from a charismatic British guy who used to be an illusionist and now teaches the fine art of selling things on the internet. The Gem could take a longer piece of content, turn it into a sales email sequence, and give it exactly the kind of sparkle that makes you feel like someone is trying to sell you an annual subscription to their own self-confidence.
After a few weeks, I sent it into virtual retirement. I don’t like sales pressure. I especially don’t like sales pressure when I don’t even have anything to sell yet.
Images: From Plastic People to Canva Saving the Day
I’ve been playing with AI images since the days when Midjourney was freely accessible. But Discord and shared channels overflowing with other people’s prompts never exactly felt like home, so I experimented with other tools too. Some of the older illustrations on my blog were made with the Czech tool Editee. And they’re a great demonstration of just how quickly this field has aged. They’re only about a year old, but some of the faces already look like distant relatives of plastic dolls with the wrong number of limbs, only some of whom have accidentally learned how to hold a coffee mug.
These days, I switch between ChatGPT, Nano Banana, and Ideogram depending on what I need. The first two are especially useful for infographics because they can now handle Czech text most of the time without turning it into a fantasy language.
And then Canva enters the chat. My Canva Pro subscription has been worth every penny. Its layer separation feature lets me fix text another model has baked into an image or rescue a detail that is almost right. Because in graphic design, almost right is very often just a more sophisticated way of saying wrong.
Video: This Is Where the AI Boss Fight Begins
I edit my videos myself. I learned the basics of Adobe Premiere back in high school, when the new millennium was still actually new. Later, I got a MacBook, switched to iMovie, and learned to work around its limits on video tracks using simple animations made in Procreate. When I moved back to Windows, I returned to Premiere. Some relationships survive even a change of operating system.
AI video is currently a discipline where you can go from “This is magic!” to “Why does that woman have a third arm?” in about five minutes.
I use AI video tools selectively. Descript caught my attention with its talking-head editing features, but between the price and what it does to the quality of the final video, the trade-off isn’t worth it for me yet.
HeyGen helps me automatically translate my Czech videos into English, including lip-sync. The result isn’t bad at all. The cloned voice is usable, and the lip movement is usually impressively accurate. The problem is what happens to the video quality along the way. HeyGen can compress the bitrate down to a tenth of the original, and unfortunately, it shows. A lot.
I also use B-roll generated with Veo. Gaming metaphors have one major advantage here: when the people look slightly plastic, they don’t have to pretend to be real. It can simply look like intentional stylization. And when I make my virtual alter ego sit in a therapist’s office or throw her hands up in despair over overwhelm, I tick the AI-content box on YouTube. Not because the video suddenly stops being mine.
Because it’s simply the fair thing to do.
AI Can Lend Me Processing Power. It Can’t Lend Me Experience.
AI helps me get an idea moving when it would otherwise be too big for one ADHD brain. It can fix a broken sentence, translate a text, find a better headline, or create an illustration that would take me until the next century to draw myself. But it doesn’t have my experience. It doesn’t know what I’ve tried, what didn’t work, or why I might find a particular tool useful while also finding it slightly suspicious.
That’s why it will never become my replacement. I want to use AI as a tool. Sometimes an amazing one. Sometimes an annoying one. Occasionally a ridiculously expensive one.
But still a tool.
And what if Pangram eventually flags a paragraph as AI-written because I dictated it and then asked AI to clean it up? That might happen. I won’t enjoy it, but I’m not going to start deliberately adding human mistakes just to prove I’m human. And it doesn’t mean my idea suddenly disappeared.
I’m still responsible for what I publish. And that’s exactly how I want it to be. That’s the part that matters most.
Sources:
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence and amending certain regulations and directives. [online]. Official Journal of the European Union, 12 July 2024. Available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj [accessed 2026-08-26].
SUBSTACK, INC. How can I detect AI on Substack? [online]. Updated 9 August 2026. Available at: https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/50891130623508-How-can-I-detect-AI-on-Substack [accessed 2026-08-26].
Topics: AI content creation, AI-assisted content, AI transparency, AI Act, Pangram AI detection, blogging with AI, AI newsletters, AI image generation, AI video generation, HeyGen, Canva, AI tools for creators, content creation workflow, ADHD content creation, neurodivergent creators
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