The distinction between human authorship and artificial facilitation has become increasingly blurred.
When large-language models enter the writing room, the obvious first question is: who’s really the author now?
The Six Collaboration Archetypes
Below is a fast, field-tested taxonomy for guessing how “pure” your prose still is — a real-world diagnosis of the post you are reading now.
| Level | Name (common parlance) | Workflow Snapshot | Human : AI Effort* |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Purely Human | Everything typed by a person. | 100 : 0 |
| 1 | AI-Assisted | Human draft ⇒ AI fixes grammar, synonyms, tone tweaks. | 90 : 10 |
| 2 | AI-Augmented | Human outline ⇒ AI drafts blocks ⇒ light human edits. | 70 : 30 |
| 3 | Centaur / Co-Creation | Ping-pong: prompt → draft → critique → redraft… human steers. | 50 : 50 |
| 4… |
