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Creative Transparency

AKA: What I use, what I don’t use, and what absolutely none of us are going to pretend.

Welcome to my chaos.

This page explains what tools I use to make content across all the Sekai Studios worlds, how I use them, and what I absolutely refuse to do.

Think of this as a friendship-level disclosure, not a boardroom meeting.

Grab a drink. Let’s go.

AI Music and Artwork: The Honest Version

Yes, I use AI for background music and some visuals.

No, I’m not pretending otherwise.

I use it for a simple reason: vibes.

Sometimes I need:

  • sleepy lo-fi for Tsuki Light or Panda Patch

  • dramatic bamboo forest energy

  • “boss fight on a Tuesday” mood

  • generate a meme song for a game that I am playing and want to share with my alliance friends online

  • a soundtrack for my unit of chaos called creativity

And AI lets me make that in minutes.

But here’s the part that matters:

I still:

  • buy albums

  • stream music non-stop

  • attend concerts (Sabrina Carpenter tickets are NOT cheap)

  • scream at encores with my overpriced lightstick in hand (K-Pop concerts are so much fun)

  • pay for overpriced drinks and food at concert venues

  • and walk out with merch I didn’t need (because capitalism, trauma bonding, and serotonin)

AI music does NOT replace real musicians in my world.

It just fills the silence when I need a vibe.

And yes, some of my AI-assisted tracks are available to buy and to stream. That’s normal. Indie artists do it every day, and it just gives you more ways to vibe with me. 

This music is not mainstream music. It’s filled with Zen-like vibes, Asian musical instruments, and English words. Yes. It’s in English. Trust me. I’ve always wanted that. Plus, the lyrics are all my own. Filled with positive messages for inner strength, resilience, and acceptance of who you are. Lo-fi vibes. 

AI Art: The Aesthetic Reality

Sometimes I use AI art tools to help with:

  • moodboards

  • backgrounds

  • character inspiration

  • thumbnails

  • world page banners

  • chaos I don’t want to draw by hand

But the story, the tone, the color, the vibe — that’s all me.

I guide it.

I curate it.

I refine it.

I tweak it until it matches the world in my head.

AI does not replace real artists.

Real artists get my money, my respect, and my walls covered in prints I swear I have room for.

Writing: The Human in the Room

Everything written across all my worlds is:

  • plotted

  • drafted

  • rewritten

  • cleaned

  • obsessed over

  • dramatic

  • emotional

  • chaotic

  • and VERY human

AI helps me:

  • organize

  • rephrase

  • skim for typos

  • brainstorm

  • fight my own perfectionism (I have emotional trauma arguing with ChatGPT)

But the storytelling? The tone? The jokes? The emotional chaos? The cultural grounding? The entire RaeRae voice?

That is 100% percent me. AI could never. It doesn’t drink enough caffeine or boba to be me. Trust me, between 20+ year in the military, 20+ years in the corporate world dealing with regulations and policies, three deployments separated from my family, and raising my children and husband… AI has not experienced enough emotional and psychological trauma to be me. Ever.

(If AI ever develops PTSD from military bureaucracy, then we can talk.) I’m still emotionally recovering from the last government shut down.

Privacy Protection (Because This Is Still The Internet)

This is the part where I protect myself like a normal modern adult (and due to my military training for OPSEC).

I love my readers, but the Internet does not need access to my home address, my kids, my workplace, or the amount of caffeine I consume daily. (I may have fudged a bit to my doctor about my true caffeine intake level…)

I do NOT:

  • share my location

  • share my face (I made an AI me)

  • share my workplace

  • share my children

  • overshare private details

  • reveal things strangers should not know

  • provide identifying info

  • give platforms access to anything personal

I control what I share and what I don’t. Boundaries are healthy. Therapists agree…at least mine does. And trust me, she charges a lot for her advice.

What I Absolutely Will Never Do

  • clone singers’ voices

  • fake real artists

  • copy copyrighted melodies (tragic for my stupid parody ambitions, I know)

  • copy another artist style or vision

  • pretend AI created something it didn’t

  • pretend humans created something AI did

  • steal from creators

  • sell AI-generated music and pretend I composed it

  • use AI to replace anyone’s livelihood (I don’t even have that power)

AI is a tool. Not a personality. Not a replacement. Not a factory.

Why This Page Exists

Because honesty is easier than pretending I hand-painted every world banner at 3 a.m. with a candle and a dream.

And because I’d rather you KNOW how things are made than assume the worst.

This universe is big. It’s emotional. It’s chaotic. It’s creative. It’s fun.

AI helps me bring it to life faster. But the heart behind it will always be human. And it will always be me. Trust me… do you know the number of times my husband has dragged me back to bed because it was 3 AM, and I was hunched over a draft like a gremlin? (And trust me… he has dragged me back to bed in the wee hours of the morning more times than I want to admit. This is after an 8-hour workday, 3-5 hours of traffic, and me still tweaking a line because “it didn’t feel right.”)

Final Thought

If you enjoy the worlds, the stories, the chaos, and the vibes, you’re in the right place.

If you’re here to debate whether creators can use tools… breathe, drink water, and go enjoy something that makes you happy.

I’ll be over here building more universes.