# Why I'm Building Truly Typed > Source: > Published: 2026-05-25 21:14:25+00:00 If you don't know what truly typed is - it is a writing application which intends to bring transparency to the writing process to help both the writers and the readers. It helps writers by giving them a defense against "Did an AI write this?" and it helps readers in figuring out "Did an AI write this?". The same question has different implications depending on who it is being asked from. Let me first start by explaining why I think we need to differentiate between AI and Human experience. The way we access and interact with humans has always been evolving. All the groundbreaking technologies of the 20th century has helped improve that access. I think AI is going to change that trend. From in-person to facetime calls - our access to humans has constantly evolved and increased. To some extent , social media cannibalized in-person contact and substituted it with text, audio and video. The substitutions were, however, still facilitated by humans e.g your friend texting you or calling you etc. Now even that model is evolving and we will slowly accept that as the new reality. Am I fighting that? - as much as I'd like to - the answer is No. **But I passionately want to draw a line between human experience and an artifical experience**,** for those who would like the option to choose.**Right now there is no way to tell if something that you are reading on the internet was composed out of human effort or generated by a LLM or a mix of both. I am not taking any side on whether AI generated content is good or not and I am not anti-AI either.I personally think we should be free to consume whatever content we want to consume as long as we know how it was created. Some people have told me, "They don't care if something is AI generated, as long as it's good". The argument sounds pretty solid when you hear it first and there is no instant comeback, atleast I didn't have any. So I had to sit down and think about it and come up with an answer. My answer is - I think we have grossly underestimated the cost of negative externalities of AI generated content when its not tagged as "AI generated". Let me lay those out in simple words. **How much** content should be generated with AI? - Who decides this? Can we flood the market with AI generated books? - Look up the case of 'Blake Whiting', 15 books published in a week, all AI generated. What happens to the humans who actually sat and interacted with the world and wrote their experience in a book? What happens to their contributions? Is it not valuable anymore?**What** should be generated with AI? Is it okay to generate scientific content or news articles with AI? What are the implications of a professor pushing AI generated 100 papers in a year and what will that do to honest professors still submitting 2-3 papers in the same year. The same applies to journalism.- If we normalize AI generated content without differentiating it from human generated content we would slowly disincentivize learning to write which is how we learn to think in the first place. There's more to this but I guess you get the general idea of negative externalities in this case. The seller and buyer of AI services can keep doing their business without ever answering these questions. Are they in the wrong? they are not and I can defend thier position as well. But should we just accept these externalities - No. Negative externalities are usually neutralized/addressed either by the general population or by the governments or by the [free] markets depending on the source of externality. I think, in this case, the quickest and most efficient response will be from the markets. Truly typed is one such response. I think there will be a lot of businesses and products which will offer guaranteed human experience in written, audio and video modalities. In 2-3 years, we won't be able to tell if someone we are talking to on the phone is a real human or not. Do we need to?- I think 100%. Truly typed is only for written text but we have already started scoping out the audio and video apps. I will be writing more on this subject as we continue to build this platform. Any interest, criticism, and feedback is welcome.