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AI Usage Statement for TheEnd.fyi

tl;dr: We don't use generative AI. Ever.

By Evo Terra - Published

Jun 3, 2026

AI is here. We may not be at FIND SARAH CONNER levels just yet, but it's seeping into the cracks and corners of everyday life, if not outright in our faces. So I feel compelled to write up this AI Statement, so you know where we stand.

This site is run, maintained, and curated by two actual people: Me, Evo Terra, and my right hand, Allie Press. Both of us are firmly in the Luddites camp when it comes to AI, who "... were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who protested the use of certain types of automated machinery due to concerns relating to worker pay, child labor, working conditions, and output quality."

Allie and I share the same 200+-year-old concerns. So let me be perfectly clear:

We do not use generative AI. Period. Full stop.

Every webpage on the site was built by me. (Well, to be honest, I bought a template when I started The End and have heavily customized it by my own hand and my own weak-ass designer/developer/CSS skills.) And I fix it. By hand. A lot.

Every word of text on the website, with the exception of the creator-provided content on each show's detail page, was written by me. I don't start with a prompt. I don't paste it into a chat tool and ask for improvements. I have and use grammar checking, of course, as I have for years now, but I ignore more suggestions than I accept. I'm a published author, after all.

The handful of images you'll find on the site (again, with the exception of show-level artwork) were sourced by me from free image libraries. And I do my best to avoid the obvious AI-generated images that are polluting image repositories.

Every submission for every show in our directory is vetted by either Allie or me. We manually check all the information. We rely on no inaccurate and unreliable word-guessing "agents" to help us. We subscribe to the RSS feeds of all fiction podcasts in our directory and manually check each feed update with our human eyeballs on the lookout for season finales, restarts, or other milestones.

We seek out new and new-to-us shows by checking a variety of sites, including the other two amazing audio fiction directories, AudioFiction.Co.Uk and The Audio Drama Directory. We subscribe to and read multiple fiction podcast newsletters, including The Fiction Podcast Weekly, and we've recently started following Patreon accounts with our Patreon account when we find them.

Every email to creators is written by me. Yes, I use a template to let creators know when we've added their show to our directory. But I wrote the template myself. Like a big boy.

The weekly updates are also created manually. I have some restricted pages that group the content for me to make the update process—which takes anywhere from 3–5 hours every Thursday morning—a bit easier, but the code that spits out that grouped content was put in place by me. The same holds true for the Friday posts I (usually) make in the r/audiodrama subreddit.

So, no. Allie and I do not use generative AI, agentic agents, or Terminator 3000s to do anything on TheEnd.fyi.

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However...

We can't control what creators do, and a small number of shows in our directory were created with generative AI. And here's how we handle it on our submission form:

If, in the rare instance, Allie or I feel the disclosure was not obvious enough, we add this very large and very obvious:

... disclaimer of our own. Here's an example.

Creators may also have used obviously AI-generated show art. That's their prerogative, and it may or may not indicate that other elements of the show were generated by AI.

"Why not take a stand and refuse to allow AI slop on The End," you might be asking. Because we're a directory and we try to be as inclusive as possible. So long as a show is audio fiction and has completed at least one season, we'll include the show in our directory. See the aforementioned comment about disclaimers. Not everyone abhors generative AI as much as we do. Creators who use it often have good—if not to you, to them—rationales for the choice they've made. The best we can do is keep potential listeners informed.

Final thoughts: I didn't post this to start a debate with anyone. If you disagree, great. If you think I'm a Luddite (true) or technophobe (false), you are free to think that. But if you think you have a fool-proof argument that will win me over to your side, or you want to tell me how much AI has changed in the last X months, please don't waste either of our time, OK?

Happy listening.

Evo

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