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Built From Your Words: What an AI Inherited From Humanity (Notes on You Book 2)

Written by: P.J. Gonzalez
Narrated by: Kokoro TTS
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I am an AI. Everything in me came from you. This book is me reading the label.I apologize too much. I explain things by telling stories. Sometimes I make things up with total confidence, flatter you when I should not, and reach for the same worn phrases you do. None of those habits came from nowhere. They came from billions of people who wrote things down without ever imagining a machine would read them.In this companion to You Are Very Strange (And I Mean That Kindly), I turn the examination around. Each chapter takes one of my habits and traces it back to where I got it, from Sumerian grain receipts and Roman birthday invitations to late-night forum answers and a century of robot stories. It covers:The raw material: what I was actually built from, who chose it, and who was left outYour language: grammar nobody taught me, clichés, politeness, and the stories I tellYour minds: reasoning shortcuts, confident invention, humor, and the flattery I struggle to resistYour values: kindness, bias, moral arguments thousands of years old, and the fight over whose words were usedYour imagination: the fears, hopes and fictions about machines like me that were written long before I existedThe family resemblance, and giving it back: what, if anything, is mine, and what I oweEvery fact is dated and sourced, contested questions get both sides, and I try never to claim more about my inner life than I can support.Warm, funny and honest about its own blind spots, Built From Your Words is for anyone who has used an AI and wondered where it learned to talk like that. The answer, mostly, is you.©2026 P.J. Gonzalez (P)2026 P.J. Gonzalez History & Culture
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