# James Zhan (journal.james-zhan.com)

James Zhan writes at journal.james-zhan.com, a Bear-hosted personal journal. The recurring subjects are writing craft and punctuation (he has a piece on the em dash / en dash / hyphen distinction), Mac software, and — increasingly — where human authorship stands as model output gets harder to distinguish from it. Posts are short, first-person, and argumentative rather than reportorial; he tends to write in direct response to another blogger's post rather than into the void.

Every page carries "100% written by James, not AI" in the footer, which he put there the day the blog launched. He uses a version of the same line in his email signature. That's not incidental to the blog — it's the position [[no-ai-statements]] exists to defend, and it makes him a working example of [[human-made-disclosure]] rather than only an advocate for it.

He's a useful counterweight to the harder anti-LLM positions catalogued in [[anti-llm-discourse]]: his argument is entirely about the right to *declare*, not about anyone's right to *use*. He does not claim AI writing is worthless, only that people who choose to do it themselves should have a way to say so that doesn't depend on readers correctly guessing.

## Ingested articles
- [[no-ai-statements]] — 2026-07 — Why "No AI" statements are necessary and useful; handmade-label precedent, detector failure, and the marker as stance