AI Addicts Anonymous*

You know who you are. You asked Claude to write your wedding vows. You can't draft an email without a prompt. You haven't written anything from scratch in months. You say "the AI did it" when someone questions your work.

This is a safe space. Well, as safe as anything on the internet.

From the Circles

Signs You Might Need AIAA

• You've said "the AI did it" more than 3 times this week
• You can't explain your own work without re-prompting
• You haven't written a full paragraph from scratch in 30 days
• You've prompted an AI to write a prompt for another AI
• You feel personally attacked by this website
• You asked an AI to write your recovery plan from AI addiction
• You've asked an AI the same question 5 different ways hoping for a better answer
• You've forgotten what your own writing voice sounds like

The 12 Steps of AI Addicts Anonymous*

1. We admitted we were powerless over AI tools — that our work had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves — possibly our own brain — could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our work over to the care of Human Judgment, as we understood it.
4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of our prompt history.
5. Admitted to our boss, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our copy-pastes.
6. Were entirely ready to have Human Judgment remove all these AI-generated outputs from our work.
7. Humbly asked it to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all people and projects we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people and projects wherever possible, except when to do so would make things worse.
10. Continued to take personal inventory of our AI usage and when we blindly accepted, promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through reading and actual thinking to improve our conscious contact with our own work, seeking only for understanding of what we put our name on and the ability to explain it without re-prompting.
12. Having had an awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to other AI addicts, and to practice these principles in all our prompts.

The 12 Traditions

1. Our common welfare comes first — personal subscription fees follow close afterward.
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority — the internet. Our AI assistants are but trusted interns; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for AIAA membership is a desire to stop blindly accepting AI suggestions.
4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting the server bill.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose — to carry its message to the addict who still suffers.
6. An AIAA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the AIAA name to any AI startup, lest problems of money, marketing, and hype divert us from our primary purpose.
7. Every AIAA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside funding.
8. AI Addicts Anonymous* should remain forever non-professional, but if we accidentally make money, we'll hire actual professionals.
9. AIAA needs the least possible organization. The moment you automate the recovery process, you've relapsed.
10. No AIAA group or member should ever express any opinion on outside controversial issues — particularly those of politics, AI regulation, or model allegiance. The AI Addicts Anonymous* groups oppose no one. Concerning such matters they can express no views whatever.
11. Our relations with the general public should be characterized by personal anonymity*. We think AIAA ought to avoid sensational marketing. Our names and prompts as AIAA members ought not be broadcast, used to train models, or publicly printed. Our public relations should be guided by the principle of attraction rather than prompt injection.
12. And finally, we of AI Addicts Anonymous* believe that the principle of anonymity* has an immense spiritual significance. It reminds us that we are to place principles before parameters; that we are actually to practice a genuine humility about what we actually know versus what we think we know.

Where The Money Goes

If this ever makes actual money, it goes back into helping people with AI addiction. That's a promise, not a marketing line.